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Idiophones: Plucked Instruments

By: Gisa Jähnichen
In: The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture
Edited by: Janet Sturman
Subject:Sociology of Culture, Social & Cultural Anthropology, Popular Music
Keywords:instruments; mouth

Plucked idiophones can be divided into two prominent groups: the mouth harps and the thumb pianos, so called. A third group are music boxes. All three groups are based on the principle of using one or more flexible lamellae (thin, plate-like objects) that are plucked by hand or mechanically. They ...

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  Jähnichen, G. (2019). Idiophones: plucked instruments. In J. Sturman (Ed.), The SAGE international encyclopedia of music and culture (Vol. 1, pp. 1133-1135). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483317731.n362
  
  Jähnichen, Gisa. "Idiophones: Plucked Instruments." In The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture, edited by Sturman, Janet, 1133-35. Thousand Oaks,, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2019. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483317731.n362.
  
  Jähnichen, G. 2019. Idiophones: Plucked Instruments. In: Janet Sturman Editor, 2019. The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture, Thousand Oaks,, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. 1133-1135 Available at: <https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483317731.n362> [Accessed 7 Aug 2022].
  
  Jähnichen, Gisa. "Idiophones: Plucked Instruments." The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture. Edited by Janet Sturman. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks,: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2019, pp. 1133-35. SAGE Knowledge. 7 Aug 2022, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781483317731.n362.
  
  Jähnichen, Gisa (2019). Idiophones: plucked instruments In: Sturman, Janet (Ed.),Idiophones: Plucked instruments The SAGE international encyclopedia of music and culture Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks,, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.; 2019:1133-1135. doi:10.4135/9781483317731.n362
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