Talk:Chordophone

message: Quote: "and the piano (which, although sometimes called a string instrument, is also called a keyboard instrument and a percussion instrument)." Seriously, does anyone call a piano a percussion instrument?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by YellowOnline (talk • contribs) 19:45, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, when I was a kid I was taught that it was a percussion instrument. Khajidha (talk) 18:55, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: "Percussion" is a method of playing, not a category of instrument in the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system.  Any instrument can be played percussively -- you can use key slaps on a saxophone, or whack guitar strings with a drumstick.  The instruments usually grouped under the colloquial term "percussion" are more properly termed idiophones and membranophones.  The piano is neither of these; it is a chordophone.  Likewise, "keyboard" is not a formal instrumental group classification, but a reference to the means of activating the instrument.  A keyboard may be used to activate instruments in any of the major instrumental classes:  idiophone (celeste); aerophone (organ); membranophone (percussion stop of a theater organ); or chordophone (piano; harpsichord).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.95.43.249 (talk) 00:55, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

message: Seeing how nobody has enough interest in this article to improve it, are there still objections to merging it with String Instruments? Jacqke (talk) 01:05, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge, take 2 

message: I'm merging this soon, unless someone shows up to make objections. My arguement:
:I find myself confused when writing articles, as to which article to link to, Stringed instruments or chordophones. A significant problem is that low level readers may be turned off to reading an article with obscure words thrown in at the beginning. The jargon word "chordophone" is useful to some, but it remains jargon, specific to a limited group of specialists. 
:Others have been confused as well, as I have seen both articles linked to for base definitions. I have used stringed instrument and had others change my link to chordophone.
:This would not be an issue, except chordophone is underdeveloped with little content and is difficult to read. Is is an attempt at a dictionary definition attached to a list (shoved into paragraph form).
:Stinged instrument is much easier to read, more interestingly written with better content. Furthermore, stringed instrument is understandable to almost any English speaker in everyday coversation. Chordophone...not so much.
:I understand that these two articles may have been intended to address two different purposes, but the chordophone article has not been developed. I see no development in its future, either. Outside of it's definition, I see no purpose for the chordophone article that couldn't be addressed early in the musical instruments article.
:I propose merging chordophone into stringed instrument, with a strong emphasis on putting the word "chordophone" and its use in classification in the introduction, with links to the Hornbostel Sachs list. Most of its content can be merged into String instrument#Types of instruments. I am willing to do the work and merge the two.  Jacqke (talk) 15:24, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge, take 3