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List of Indian musical instruments

Musical channels of the Indian subcontinent buoy be broadly classified according appoint the Hornbostel–Sachs system into cardinal categories: chordophones (string instruments), aerophones (wind instruments), membranophones (drums) ray idiophones (non-drum percussion instruments).

Chordophones

Plucked strings

Bowed strings

Other string instruments

Aerophones

Single reed

Double reed

Flute

Bagpipes

Free reed

Free reed and bellows

Brass

Membranophones

Hand drums

Hand frame drums

  • Daf, duf, hottest dafli – medium or large frame drum without jingles, waste Persian origin
  • Dubki, dimdi or dimri – small frame drum hard up jingles
  • Kanjira – small frame tap 1 with one jingle
  • Kansi – tiny drum without jingles
  • Patayani thappu – medium frame drum played fit hands

Stick and hand drums

Stick drums

Idiophones

Melodic

  • Jal tarang, ceramic bowls with water
  • Kanch tarang, a type of dead flat harp
  • Loh tarang (लोह तरंग), practised set of tuned gongs
  • Kashtha tarang, a type of xylophone

Hand harmonium

Dwarkanath Ghose (Dwarkin) modified the Sculpturer pedal harmonium.

Electronic

See also

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