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- Scarped sticks with resonator
- Scraped idiophones
- Scraped sticks
- Scraped sticks without resonator
- Scraped tubes
- Scraped wheels or cog rattles
- Scrapped vessels
- Set of kettle drums
- Set of kettle drums
- Sets of barrel-shaped drums
- Sets of barrel-shaped drums
- Sets of bells (chimes) (subdivided as 111.242.1)
- Sets of blown plaques
- Sets of blown sticks
- Sets of clarinets
- Sets of conical drums
- Sets of conical drums
- Sets of cylindrical drums
- Sets of cylindrical drums
- Sets of double-conical drums
- Sets of double-conical drums
- Sets of end-blown flutes or panpipes
- Sets of flutes with external duct
- Sets of flutes with internal duct
- Sets of free reeds
- Sets of friction plaques [livika]
- Sets of friction sticks
- Sets of friction vessels
- Sets of goblet-shaped drums
- Sets of goblet-shaped drums
- Sets of gongs (gong chimes)
- Sets of heteroglot guimbardes
- Sets of hourglass-shaped drums
- Sets of hourglass-shaped drums
- Sets of oboes
- Sets of open flutes with internal duct
- Sets of open side-blown flutes
- Sets of partly-stopped flutes with internal duct
- Sets of percussion plaques
- Sets of percussion reeds
- Sets of percussion sticks
- Sets of percussion tubes
- Sets of side-blown flutes
- Sets of stopped flutes with internal duct
- Sets of stopped side-blown flutes
- Shaking idiophones or rattles
- Side-blown
- Side-blown flutes
- Side-blown horns
- Side-blown straight trumpets
- Side-blown trumpets
- Simple chordophones or zithers
- Singing membranes (Kazoos)
- Single pipes with free reed
- Single-skin barrel-shaped drums
- Single-skin barrel-shaped drums
- Single-skin conical drums
- Single-skin conical drums
- Single-skin cylindrical drums
- Single-skin cylindrical drums
- Single-skin double-conical drums
- Single-skin double-conical drums
- Single-skin frame drums
- Single-skin frame drums
- Single-skin frame drums with handle
- Single-skin frame drums with handle
- Single-skin goblet-shaped drums
- Single-skin goblet-shaped drums
- Single-skin hourglass-shaped drums
- Single-skin hourglass-shaped drums
- Single-skin stationary drums with friction-cord
- Sliding rattles
- Spike bowl lutes
- Spike box lutes or spike guitars
- Spike lutes
- Spike tube lutes
- Split idiophones
- Stationary friction drum with cord
- Stick rattles
- Stick zithers
- Stopped flutes with external duct
- Stopped flutes with internal duct
- Stopped panpipes
- Stopped side-blown flutes
- Stopped single end-blown flutes
- Struck drums
- Struck idiophones
- Strung rattles
- Suspended bells
- Suspended bells struck from outside.
- Suspension rattles
Vocabulary information
Title
Digital Hornbostel & Sachs Classification of Musical Instruments
Subject
Erich Moritz von Hombostel, Curt Sachs
Musical instruments
Taxonomy
Description
The Digital Hornbostel & Sachs System is a taxonomy based on the “Classification of Musical Instruments” by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs (see Systematik der Musikinstrumente. Ein Versuch. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 46/4-5, 1914, 553-590; English version: Classification of Musical Instruments: Translated from the Original German by Anthony Baines and Klaus P. Wachsmann. The Galpin Society Journal 14, 1961, 3-29; DOI: 10.2307/842168; https://www.jstor.org/stable/842168). It was developed at the Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences for documentation purposes in its database and catalogue, and was made available in SKOS format within the framework of a cooperation with the ACDH-OeAW in 2015.
Publisher
Phonogrammarchiv, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Creator
Phonogrammarchiv, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Relation
Format
application/rdf+xml
URI
https://vocabs.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/hsinstruments/ConceptScheme
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