Talk:List of musical instruments

message: I don't know you but I would never consider violin and viola like percussion instruments  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.18.12.244 (talk) 20:41, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Your point escapes me, sorry. Andrewa (talk) 15:18, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Percussion instruments

message: although I suppose one could be used in an intstrument context similar to a sequencer, it is primarily a sound reproduction device. at the very least Ipod should be changed to mp3 player. 01:36, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Ipod Removed

message: I added a Contiuum to electronics. However im not sure if it actually goes there or not. Anybody know?76.3.186.148 02:13, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Contiuum Added

message: Who cares how many entries there are in each section?  Why is this information even presented?  Many items appear in more than one section.  This is pointless information which is destined to become inaccurate as people edit but do not update the numbers.  I suggest removing this information altogether.  66.184.16.58 (talk) 21:02, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quantities 

message: I added the reactable to the electronic instruments section. It was used by Bjork in a recent tour.Hypershock (talk) 22:33, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  reactable 

message: According to the page on Electronic musical instrument, An electronic musical instrument is a musical instrument that produces its sounds using electronics. Consequently, i am removing the following from the list, because they largely acoustic instruments that have an "electronic" post-stage so that they can be amplified more easily. 
*Electric bass
*Electric guitar
*Electric lute
*Electric ukelele
*Electric violin
I've also removed
*Electronic organ - synthesizer hybrid
because there is no page on it, so it's not clear what that even means.
Additionally, some of the listed devices are not really instruments -- they do not
produce any sound themselves, they are controllers:
*Continuum
*Octapad
*Reactable
I think we should remove them, too, but will wait for comments. Doceddi (talk) 14:23, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Electronic instruments 

message: I hardly think there is such a category. Accordion and Bandoneon are wind instruments. You open and close holes for the wind to pass through by keys, but still the sound is produced by vibrations of the wind. Similarly piano is a string instrument and church organ is a wind instrument as well. I strongly urge a professional to look into it. 176.41.33.61 (talk) 17:04, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Keyboard Instruments

message: It seems important to me to put pictures with everything. For example, someone who sees a unique looking instrument somewhere but doesn't know its name could look at this page for reference.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.131.71.39 (talk) 08:32, 17 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Did someone give up on putting pictures to the instruments? 

message: https://www.google.pt/search?q=guitol%C3%A3o&oq=guitol%C3%A3o&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i61l2.2524j0j4&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.80.78.21 (talk) 21:51, 30 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guitolão 

message: Frankly, I think a list like this is of questionable value and probably a waste of time.  There are literally tens of thousands of musical instruments in the world, even before you start dredging up historical examples that are no longer in use.  Plus new instruments are being designed, daily.  Already the list lacks a whole category of instruments:  lamellophones.  The existing Wiki article on these alone lists at least thirty instruments in this category, and that barely scratches the surface.
::Indeed, as I attempted to add some organization to the list of stringed instruments (there were several duplicates inserted out of alphabetical order, and many missing instruments), it occurred to me that this list might be inappropriate for something that is modeling itself after an encyclopedia.
::What is the purpose of this list?
::If it's to attempt to list every known instrument by every known name, you are going to end up with something hundreds of pages long (see, for example, Sibyl Marcuse's Dictionary of Musical Instruments, which runs to several hundred pages, and doesn't pretend to be anything like complete).  Guitar variants alone would fill several monitor screens, and I could probably add at least a hundred plucked string instruments that aren't currently on the chart.  Many instruments are currently listed multiple times, by different names.
::A number of instruments are also miscategorized in the list.  For example, while some guitar synthesizers are actually based around an actual stringed guitar, there are also examples which have no strings, and just employ a vaguely guitar-shaped controller to trigger sounds.  These are not "chordophones", but electrophones.
::In short:  this list is a mess; disorganized; woefully incomplete; probably never to be complete; and of questionable value.
74.95.43.249 (talk) 02:03, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why? 

message: Why isn't the Jaw (or Jew's) Harp on this page? Jew's harp wikipedia page
Nerdvana (talk) 10:07, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I concur. 2001:1970:4000:D4:C906:45C2:74D:80BD (talk) 06:52, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jaw Harp 

message: Sounds like this.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.224.116.221 (talk) 06:50, 16 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sound Effects 

message: It seems there's a couple percussion instruments missing, such as 
Bar Chimes/Mark Tree
Bell Tree
I didn't want to make the edit myself because i don't know the proper way to format it and stuff.
Thanks  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.102.104.207 (talk) 03:23, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I added boomwhackers. Abdullah raji (talk) 08:13, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  A Few missing instruments 

message: Hello. Please, could You add to the Wind musical instruments Bass voice? It is part of voices too. Or, It isn't added just because of some reason?
Thank You.
Best regards
Cassa342 (talk) 21:12, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bass voice