Instrument Tree / Requests

A new instrument will be added only when it is used on at least 5 releases.

If the instrument you want added is not listed below, please add it. If the instrument is already listed, please add the applicable release(s) to that listing. In either case, please supply as much information about the instrument as possible. Please also search the Instrument list to make sure it is not already there under a different name.

When a proposed instrument has been added on the server, its info will be moved to the Recently Added page.

Proposed Instrument List

5-string fiddle

• AKA: 5-string violin
• Description: Tim Phillips says "Made to be tuned with a low C then G D A E, these 5 string violins have normal violin string length and spacing, so they are played like a normal violin."

• Instrument Family: Strings
• Appears On:
  • Release 1: The Desperate Battle of the Birds credits Patsy Reid for "5-string fiddle, violin, viola and vocals"
  • Release 2: Played by Brittany Haas of Crooked Still
  • Release 3: Played by Ricky Skaggs on Blue Kentucky Girl
  • Release 4:
  • Release 5:
• Comments:

10-string guitar

• Instrument Family: Strings
• Appears On:
  • Release 1: Played by GA Devine in Si le jour parait…
  • Release 2:
  • Release 3:
  • Release 4:
  • Release 5:
• Comments:

See Naxos

17-string koto

• • AKA: Jūshichi-gen, 十七絃, 十七弦
  • Description: A koto with 17 rather than 13 strings, sometimes described as a bass koto.
  • Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Strings / ... / Koto
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: 源氏ノスタルジー
    • Release 2: Inland Sea
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Accordina

• • AKA:
  • Description: it's a free reed musical instrument like the accordion or harmonica, more information
  • Instrument Family: Free reed
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Le Jaseur boréal
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Acoustic Instruments

• • AKA:
  • Description: Generic instrument credit
  • Instrument Family: Instruments
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • We already have Electronic Instruments in the tree.

Alfaia drum

• • Description:
    • Wikipedia (PT) Wikipedia (FR)
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Indeecios credits Tikogó for "alfaia drum"
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Algozey

• • Description: A wooden, beaked double-flute traditionally played by goat herders in the Punjab region of India and Pakistan. One flute is kept as the drone, creating a melodious, hypnotic sound. This instrument is popularly used in the Bhangra dance form.
  • World Music Central wiki
  • Instrument Family: Flutes
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: In the Zone (Me Against the Music (Rishi Rich's Desi Kulcha mix))
    • Release 2: Rise & Fall (Rise & Fall (Rishi Rich Desi Kulcha remix) (feat. Juggy D))
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Aman khuur

• • AKA: Khel khuur, khulsan khuur, tömör khuur (with many spelling variations including: aman huur, aman xuur, hel huur, xel xuur, hulsan huur, xulsan xuur, tömör huur, tömör xuur), ヘル・ホール
  • Description: A Mongolian Jew's harp.
  • Instrument Family: Wind instruments / ... / Jew's harp
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: モンゴルの歌
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Apito

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: A Brazilian whistle
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Mingle
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer
    • Apito seems to just mean "whistle" in Portuguese, so I'm very reluctant to add this as it is. "Samba whistle" or "tri-tone samba whistle" would probably be ok. --Nikki 13:25, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Archlute

• • AKA: Arciliuto (Italian); Erzlaute (German); Архилютня (Russian)
  • Description: The archlute is a European plucked string instrument developed around 1600 as a compromise between the very large theorbo, the size and re-entrant tuning of which made for difficulties in the performance of solo music, and the Renaissance tenor lute, which lacked the bass range of the theorbo. Essentially a tenor lute with the theorbo's neck-extension, the archlute lacks the power in the tenor and the bass that the theorbo's large body and typically greater string length provide.
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Sonatas For Violoncello (Anner Bylsma, violoncello)
    • Release 2: Trio Sonatas (Parnassi musici)
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Ashiko

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a type of drum played with the hands
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Devil's Got Your Tongue
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Atarigane

• • AKA: 当り鉦, 当たり鉦, 当鉦, 摺鉦, surigane, チャンチキ, chanchiki, コンチキ, konchiki
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: A Japanese gong which is struck using a deer horn mallet.
  • Instrument Family: Percussion / ... / Gong
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: 直感2〜逃した魚は大きいぞ!〜
    • Release 2: 幸せきょうりゅう音頭
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Backpacker guitar

• • AKA: Martin Backpacker guitar
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: A Place in the World (John Jennings, tracks 3 and 8)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Backwards electric guitar

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Not Too Late
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • Adam Levy is credited playing backwards electric guitars on Not Too Late. Is this really a separate instrument? :-S -- Prodoc 15:20, 08 March 2008 (UTC)
      • Honestly, I highly doubt it. He's probably just playing it behind his back/head, reversed, on in some other strange way. Or perhaps it's a left-hand guitar. I don't know. But I doubt it warrants an instrument listing on its own. -- FrederikSOlesen 00:27, 09 March 2008 (UTC)

Balalaika double bass

• • AKA: contrabass balalaika
  • Wikipedia
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Dark Ages
    • Release 2: Le Pop
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • Vitaly Hrenov is credited playing Balalaika double bass on Dark Ages. I don't know this instrument at all so I don't know if the 'double bass' aspect is default for this instrument or not. If it isn't, should we include it as a separate instrument? -- Prodoc 15:20, 08 March 2008 (UTC)
      • You provided the link to Wikipedia and still didn't read the article? Double bass would correspond to the contrabass tuning. Just use balalaika for now and record the tuning in the Sub Optimal Credits. Tunings will most likely be added as a separate attribute. -- FrederikSOlesen 00:27, 09 March 2008 (UTC)

Banjolin

• • AKA:
  • Description: Description in Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Feels Like Home (track 1, credited as banjo)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Four-string Banjo

• • AKA:
  • Description: a banjo, with four strings
  • Instrument Family: Strings, Banjo
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Genuine Negro Jig by Caroline Chocolate Drops
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Five-string Banjo

• • AKA:
  • Description: a banjo, with five strings
  • Instrument Family: Strings, Banjo
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Genuine Negro Jig by Caroline Chocolate Drops
    • Release 2: Southern Journey, Volume 13: Earliest Times
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Banjo-ukelele

• • AKA:'Banjolele'
  • Description: Description in Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Samurai Over Serbia
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Baroque cello

• • Description: From the wiki article for baroque violin: "any violin whose neck, fingerboard, bridge, and tailpiece are of the type used during the baroque period. [...] 'Baroque cellos' [...] also exist, with similar modifications made to their form."
  • Instrument Family: Cello
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Flute Sonatas Nos. 272-277
    • Release 2: Alchemist
    • Release 3: Twelve Flute Sonatas
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:

Baroque Guitar

• • Wikipedia
  • Description: A guitar from the baroque era (c. 1600–1750), an ancestor of the modern classical guitar. The term is also used for modern instruments made in the same style.
  • Instrument Family: Guitar
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Der fluyten lust-hof (selected works) (Erik Bosgraaf) in cd 3 tracks 8, 9 & 10
    • Release 2: På gyllen grunn (Anita Skorgan), all tracks.
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:

Baroque Lute

• • Info
  • Instrument Family: Lute
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Music for Lute and Mandolin
    • Release 2: Countertenor duets by Purcell and Blow
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:

Baroque Trumpet

• • AKA: Natural Trumpet
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: A brass instrument used in the 16th through 18th centuries, or a modern replica of a period instrument.
  • Instrument Family: Trumpet
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The James Bowman Collection (James Bowman and The King's Consort) in track 20
    • Release 2: Fiori Musicali: Three Organ Masses
    • Release 3: His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts: Grand Tour (played by David Staff: see CD sleeve linked at http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/al.asp?al=CDH55344)
    • Release 4: Brandenburgische Konzerte 1-6 / Ouvertüren 1-4 (Collegium Aureum) (played by Edward H. Tarr)
    • Release 5:

Baroque Violin

• • Wikipedia
  • Description: A violin of the style used in the 16th through 18th centuries, or a modern replica of a period instrument.
  • Instrument Family: Violin
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Violin Sonatas (with original ornamentation)
    • Release 2: Alchemist
    • Release 3: Folio
    • Release 4: Music for a While. Songs (Alfred Deller)
    • Release 5:

Bapang

• • AKA:
  • http://chinhwebchannel.in/Nomadic%20fair%20&%20festival/performance.html
  • http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musique_rajasthanie
  • Description: A percussion from Rajasthan
  • Instrument Family: Percussions
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Un bruit qui court (Bapang by Simon Edwards)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:

Bass Marimba

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Kärlek & politik
    • Release 2: Wall-E
    • Release 3: Unerreichbar
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments: Not very common. The author of http://www.craftymusicteachers.com/bassmarimba/ has heard from percussion supply dealers that there are few bass marimbas around, mainly at music schools

Bouzoukomana

• • AKA: Μπουζουκομάνα
  • Description: A larger version of the bouzouki
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Αγία Νοσταλγία
    • Release 2: Βραχνός προφήτης on track 10
    • Release 3: Διάφανος on tracks 1 and 10
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments: Not used very often. Made more well known by Θανάσης Παπακωνσταντίνου who used it on a lot of his albums. Example of one such organ for sale can be seen here: http://goo.gl/9xxPE

Broom Stick

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: A Portrait (disc 1) (tracks 5-8)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Bulbul

• • AKA: Bulbul tarang, Indian banjo
  • Wikipedia
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: A Kiss Before You Go on track 6
    • Release 2: Sad Machinery of Spring
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Cavaquinho

• • AKA: machimbo, machim, machete, manchete, marchete, braguinha, braguinho, cavaco
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: A Portuguese instrument similar to the Ukulele.
  • Instrument Family: Strings, guitars
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Εκπομπή
    • Release 2: Mar Azul
    • Release 3: Mingle
    • Release 4: D404ME Track 10, under "guitar"
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Chainsaw

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: A powered tool primarily used in the cutting of wood
  • Instrument Family: Other
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse on track 10
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Chikuzen Biwa

• • AKA: 筑前琵琶
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: A biwa with either four strings and frets or five strings and frets popularised during the Meiji period.
  • Instrument Family: Strings / ... / Biwa
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: 琵琶〜哀・吟遊
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Chitarra battente

• • AKA:
  • Description: Description in Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: track in tribute to Dead Can Dance
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Cimbasso

• • AKA:
  • Description: Description in Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Brass
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: ワールド・デストラクション ~世界撲滅の六人~ オリジナルサウンドトラック
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Commodore 64

• • AKA: MOS Technology SID, 6581/8580 SID, 6581 SID
  • Description: Wikipedia MOS Technology SID
  • Instrument Family: Electronic instruments / Synthesizer
  • Appears On:
    • Work 1: Zoids
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Computer hard drive "triangle"

• • Description: presumably the platter from a computer hard drive, played as a triangle.
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Genuine Negro Jig by Caroline Chocolate Drops
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments: Yeah, this'll never get added. --Hawke 00:03, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Anglo concertina

• • AKA: Anglo-German concertina
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: the Anglo or Anglo-German concertina is historically a hybrid between the English and German types of concertinas. The button layouts are generally the same as the original 20-button German concertinas designed by Uhlig in 1834.
  • Instrument Family: Free-reed aerophone
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Sharp Practice
    • Release 2: Fenlandia
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Baritone concertina

• AKA:
• Wikipedia
• Description: A baritone version of the concertina, transposing one octave down.
• Instrument Family: Free-reed aerophone
• Appears On:
  • Recording 1: The Young Girl Cut Down in her Prime
  • Release 2:
  • Release 3:
  • Release 4:
  • Release 5:
• Comments:

English concertina

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a fully chromatic instrument having buttons in a rectangular arrangement of four staggered rows.
  • Instrument Family: Free-reed aerophone
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Sharp Practice
    • Release 2: Fenlandia
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Contra-alto Clarinet

• • AKA: "Sometimes incorrectly referred to as the EE♭ contrabass clarinet," according to Wikipedia
  • Wikipedia
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Clarinet
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Sad Machinery of Spring
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Contrabass Guitar

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a low-register plucked string instrument in the guitar family, which has six strings.
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Hearts and Bones
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Cornamuse

• • AKA:
  • Description: Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Winds (double reed)
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Alchemist
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Corno da caccia

• Description: [1]

• Instrument Family: Brass
• Appears On:
  • Release 1: Civitas Soli (played by Aleksei Saks)
  • Release 2:
  • Release 3:
  • Release 4:
  • Release 5:
• Comments:

Craviola

• • AKA:
  • Description: Craviola
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Bill Haley & Friends, Volume 3: The Story of Rock Around the Clock (disc 2: Lee Jackson / Rock Around the Clock, played by Luiz Carlos Mululy)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Cromorne

• • AKA:
  • Description: Cromorne
  • Instrument Family: Woodwinds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: 40 bandes originales pour 40 films (disc 1: Alexandre le bienheureux / Clérambard)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Daire

• • Description: A larger version of daf.
  • [[]]
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Bestekar Padişahların Saz Eserleri
    • Release 2: Darüş-şifa Music of the Ottoman Empire
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Kudüm

• • Description: Kudüm is one of the most fundamental rhythm instruments in classical Turkish music.
  • Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Aşık (Devotee)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments: Kudüm is one of the most fundamental rhythm instruments in classical Turkish music. The person playing it is called kudümzen. It is among ney, rebap, and halile as one of the four main instruments in Mevlevi music. It consists of a pair of small, hemispherical drums. Traditionally kudüm was played in religious ceremonies; in a secular context, like in mehter music, its slightly bigger cousin nakkare is played.

Yaylı Tanbur

• • Description: aylı tanbur is a bowed lute from Turkey derived from the older plucked tanbur.
  • Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Stringed
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Darüş-şifa Music of the Ottoman Empire
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments: The yaylı tanbur has a similar physical appearance, although the shell -a nearly perfect semi-sphere- might be made of metal. It is played with a bow instead of a plectrum. The technique was introduced by Tanburi Cemil Bey in the end of the 19th century. Ercüment Batanay was, after Tanburi Cemil Bey, the most outstanding virtuoso of this instrument, until his death. The yaylı tanbur is held vertically on the knees, as opposed to the regular one where the neck is maintained horizontal to the ground at all times. From Wikipedia

Daruan

• • AKA: 大阮
  • Description: A bass ruan.
  • Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Strings / ... / Moon lute (or Ruan, if that gets added)
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The Art of the Chinese Lute (see edit #4801525)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Dictaphone

• • Wikipedia
  • Description: Speech playback device
  • Instrument Family: Vocoder?
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Snake Charmer Holger Czukay on tracks 1,3 & 5
    • Release 2: It's a Wonderful Life on track 2
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Dilruba

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: bowed string instrument
  • Instrument Family: Sitar
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Papua New Guinea Translations Sitar Magic Band (all tracks)
    • Release 2: Λαβύρινθος
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Double harp

• • AKA:
  • Description: "The double, cross-strung harp is an instrument of Spanish origin which developed across the Iberian peninsula between the mid-1500s and the mid-1700s, being used for both sacred and secular music. The accompaniment on this recording is provided exclusively by the double harp – another first, as this practice, once widespread, has over the centuries been entirely forgotten." (from Naxos)
  • Instrument Family: harp
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Tonadas (Songs)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Duck call

• • AKA:Entenfänger
  • Wikipedia
    • http://www.steveweissmusic.com/category/sound-effects
  • Description: A duck call is like a traditional whistle made to emulate the sound of a duck
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Hell Billies From Venus on track 11 & 12 (as "Entenfänger")
    • Release 2: Acoustica: Alarm Will Sound Performs Aphex Twin
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Dulcimer

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Fantasia Lindum
    • Release 2: No Guru No Method No Beeper
    • Release 3: Fateless
    • Release 4: Broken Wings
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer
    • We already have Appalachian dulcimer (plucked) and Hammered dulcimer (struck), as well as several children of the hammered dulcimer. Sure it isn't one of these? -- FrederikSOlesen 20:27, 06 May 2008 (UTC)
    • According to Wikipedia, "dulcimer" on its own refers to the Appalachian dulcimer. Does anyone know how true that is? I've also removed Wall-E from this list as that page also says that lap dulcimer is another name for Appalachian dulcimer. --Nikki 13:01, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Dutar

• • AKA: Dutara, Dotar, Dutor, Doutar
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: traditional long-necked two-stringed lute found in Central Asia and South Asia
  • Instrument Family: Lute
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: We Are Three track 9
    • Release 2: Naghma
    • Release 3: Afghanistan Untouched (both discs)
    • Release 4: Ouzbékistan: L'Art Du Dotâr (as dotâr)
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Eagle Bone Whistle

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: Sacred Native American instrument.
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The Border of Heaven
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • See 8653887. -- TimVanHolder 20:00, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Effects

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Other
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Never, Never Land on track 5
    • Release 2: The Catherine Wheel
    • Release 3: Spike Various sounds by Michael Blair
    • Release 4: A Kiss Before You Go on track 1, 8
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

E-Flat Bass Tuba

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Brass
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Secret of the Sahara
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Eight String Bass

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The Dreaming
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Electric Acoustic Guitar

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Unlimited: Saga (disc 2)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • I'm a bit surprised that this isn't here already, it's not exactly a rare instrument. I came across one release it's used in - but I have no doubt that it's out there on various other releases as well. -- Kilu
      • From what I can tell, it's just a regular (acoustic) guitar with pick-ups. Do you want "electric-acoustic" bouzoukis, banjos, harps, accordions, violins, guitar basses, double basses, ... etc. as well? -- -- FrederikSOlesen 10:42, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
        • I suppose you have a point there. I personally don't have an electric acoustic anything, so I don't know if the sound is any different from normal acoustic. I do think that it's sort of odd that it's specifically credited as such in the booklet though. Kilu
        • Perhaps an "electric" option which could then be applied to any instrument in the list? -- BrianSchweitzer 13:40, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Electric Baritone Guitar

• • AKA: Scale Baritone Guitar
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: Six-string guitar tuned an octave lower than standard tuning, which can function as a bass or electric guitar, but with its own distinctive sound.
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: 2009-07-08: Morning Becomes Eclectic, KCRW, Santa Monica, CA, USA
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • Adding primarily for Doug McCombs's work in Tortoise, but Wikipedia states its use by more players. -- M. del Carpio 10:36, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Electric bouzouki

• • AKA:
  • image search
  • Description: Electric bouzouki
  • Instrument Family: Bouzouki
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Celtic Moon (Niall O'Callánain)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Electronic Birds

• • Instrument Family: Other
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: It's a Wonderful Life, track 2
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:

Electronics

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Other
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Idiology
    • Release 2: It's a Wonderful Life on tracks 5, 11, 12.
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer
    • How is this different from "electronic instruments"?--Reosarevok 11:34, 19 February 2012 (UTC)

Extended-range bass guitar

• • AKA: 6 string bass, 7 string bass, etc.
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: An electric bass guitar with greater frequency range than the standard 4-string bass guitar.
  • Instrument Family: Guitars
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Guitar Town
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

F Bass Tuba

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Brass
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Secret of the Sahara
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • BrianSchweitzer 02:13, 05 August 2007 (UTC)

Frame drum set

• • Description: set of frame drums
  • Instrument Family: Percussion, Frame Drum, Drum set
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Genuine Negro Jig by Carolina Chocolate Drops
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • Adding just Rebana may suffice; a Kompang is a smaller version but I believe the same.

Fretless Guitar

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Γρήγορα η ώρα πέρασε
    • Release 2: Ο κήπος της Ρίλα
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Fujara

• • AKA: Slovak shepherds long pipe
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: A long wooden flute that superficially resembles a bassoon.
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Hounds of Love (as "Fujare")
    • Release 2: On the Shoulders of the Great Bear
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Gameboy

• • AKA:
  • Description: ?
  • Instrument Family: ?
    • Release 1: Life's a Bit Shifter
    • Release 2: Information Chase
    • Release 3: DaMaGe
    • Release 4: TransAmerican Chip Tour
    • Release 5: The Primordial Booze (Track 6 even features two guest gameboy solos)
  • Comments:
    • Which relationships do you need this adding for? I can't see any relationships or annotations on any of those releases... --Nikki 06:29, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Gittern

• • AKA:
  • Description: Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Strings (ancestor to guitar, lute, mandolin)
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Alchemist
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:

Glass Bottle

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: A Portrait (disc 1) (tracks 5-8)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:

Glass Bowl

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: A Canticle for Leibowitz (as "Pyrex bowl")
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Goc

• • AKA:
  • Description: a serbian traditional drum.
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Alkohol: Šljivovica & Champagne
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Gong bass drum

• • AKA:
  • Description: Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Drums?
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Six Degrees of Innter Turbulence - gong drum on the outro of "The Great Debate" by Howard Portnoy --Shepard 21:53, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:

Greek lute

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: A Midwinter Night's Dream on track 3 & 4.
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Guitalele

• • AKA: Guitalélé, Guitarlele, Guitarlélé, Guitatélé (typo), Yamaha GL-1 (product)
  • Description: small sized guitar tuned like a ukulélé
  • Instrument Family: Guitars
  • Wikipedia
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Many tracks in ZA7IE
    • Release 2: サマーれげぇ!レインボー
    • Release 3: ダンシング! 夏祭り
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Guitarrón mexicano

• • AKA: Guitarrón, Mexican guitarron, Mexican large guitar (literal translation)
  • Description: A large, deep-bodied Mexican 6-string acoustic bass played in mariachi groups.
  • Instrument Family: Guitars
  • Wikipedia
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Black Eyed Peas - Elephunk
    • Release 2: Recent Songs
    • Release 3: Hotel California
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A predecessor of the modern acoustic bass guitar
    • Also a distinct instrument at Discogs
    • Not to be confused with the Guitarrón chileno

Halldorophone

• • AKA:
  • [2]
  • Description: Electro-acoustic string instruments in development by Halldór Úlfarsson.
  • Instrument Family: String
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Tomorrow, in a Year (by Hildur Guðnadóttir)
    • Release 2: Summer Make Good (by Halldór Úlfarsson)
    • Release 3: 26000 (by Hildur Guðnadóttir)
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments: [3]

Hang

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: Hand-played instrument with a steelpan-like sound made of two steel sheet bowls put together in a UFO-like shape
  • Instrument Family: Percussions
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Un bruit qui court (hang by Martyn Barker)
    • Release 2: Rhizomism (hang by Rafael Sotomayor)
    • Release 3: The Vibration of the Hang (hang by Rafael Sotomayor)
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Harmonitor

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family:
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Siren on track 14
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • No idea what this actually is, only reference I can find so far seems to be on the credits page for Siren

Harpeleik

• • AKA:
  • Description: a chorded zither
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Le Pop
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Heike Biwa

• • AKA: 平家琵琶
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: A biwa with four strings and five frets used to play Heike Monogatari.
  • Instrument Family: Strings / ... / Biwa
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: 琵琶〜哀・吟遊
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Hulusi

• • AKA: 葫蘆絲, 葫芦丝
  • Description: A Chinese free reed wind instrument flute typically made of bamboo.
  • Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Winds / ... / Free reed
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: 聲聲醉如蘭。
    • Release 2: 筝美人
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Jarana

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: Mexican guitar variant
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Excitable Boy
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • See 7165280. -- TimVanHolder 20:00, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Jing

• • AKA:
  • Description: A large Korean gong
  • Instrument Family: Gongs, gong
  • Wikipedia: [4]
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: 한국 rock 다시 부르기
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Kartal

• • AKA: Khartal
  • Description: Indian percussion instrument
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The Very Best of Ravi Shankar (disc 2, 3-7, tracks originally appeared on Portrait of Genius)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Katem

• • AKA:
  • Description: Some sort of percussion instrument, middle-eastern?
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The Art of the Middle Eastern Oud: New Perspectives on Traditional Magams
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Black Sea Kemenche

• • AKA: "Turkish: Karadeniz (Laz) Kemençesi"
  • Description:
  • Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Bowed string instruments
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • Currently Kemenche is already in database, but, as also Wikipedia says, word Kemenche is a general word. It consists of two types, which sound completely different. Classical Kemenche is mostly used in classical Turkish and Ottoman music, whereas Black Sea Kemenche is mostly used in the folk songs from Black Sea region of Turkey. --Ym

Classical Kemenche

• • AKA: "Turkish: Klasik Kemençe"
  • Description:
  • Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Bowed string instruments
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • Currently Kemenche is already in database, but, as also Wikipedia says, word Kemenche is a general word. It consists of two types, which sound completely different. Classical Kemenche is mostly used in classical Turkish and Ottoman music, whereas Black Sea Kemenche is mostly used in the folk songs from Black Sea region of Turkey. --Ym

Kōauau

• AKA: Maori flute
• Description: One kind of Maori flute. Wikipedia: "a small flute, ductless and notchless, four to eight inches long, open at both ends and having from three to six fingerholes placed along the pipe." Examples: Museum of New Zealand & Ta Moko studio and Maori Arts Gallery

• Instrument Family: Flute
• Appears On:
  • Release 1: The Adults track 12 credits Tiki for "Keyboards & Koauau"
  • Release 2:
  • Release 3:
  • Release 4:
  • Release 5:
• Comments:

May be credited as "Maori flute" but it is not the only kind of Maori flute (see others at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taonga_p%C5%ABoro#Flutes]

Kompang

• • AKA: Rebana
  • Description: type of Rebana, a small frame drum used in Islamic devotional music in traditional Malay culture. (Wikipedia)
  • Instrument Family: Percussion, Frame Drum
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Louder than Light by Wicked Aura Batacada
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • Adding just Rebana may suffice; a Kompang is a smaller version but I believe the same.

Komuz

• • AKA: Qomuz, Azeri: Gopuz, Turkish: Kopuz
  • Description: Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: String, Baglama
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1:
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • It's weird that this is still not in db. It's a very famous Kyrgyz instrument. --Ym

Kotsuzumi

• • AKA: 小鼓
  • Description: Hourglass shaped Japanese drum, smaller than the ōtsuzumi
  • Wikipedia: wikipedia:Tsuzumi
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: 能楽〜室町の仮面劇
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Kutero/Kutiro

• • AKA:
  • Description: A set of three drums played by Mandinka people in West Africa. Similar to Sabar or Djembe. Picture here.
  • Instrument Family: Drums
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Ascension by Pep Love (track 16)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Launeddas

• • AKA:
  • Launeddas
  • Description: a typical Sardinian woodwind instrument, consisting of three pipes
  • Instrument family: Winds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Caminos de pache by Tenores di Bitti "Remunnu 'e Locu"
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Laser Harp

• • AKA:
  • Laser Harp
  • Description: A laser harp is an electronic musical instrument consisting of several laser beams to be blocked, in analogy with the plucking of the strings of a harp, in order to produce sounds.
  • Instrument family: Electronic Instruments
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Rendez-vous Track 3 as Electronic Instrument.
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Limbe

• • AKA: リンベ, лимбэ, limb
  • Description: A Mongolian transverse flute.
  • Instrument Family: Wind instruments / ... / Transverse flute
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: モンゴルの歌
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

"leg" percussion

• • AKA:
  • Description: percussion music performed with the legs, presumably
  • Instrument family: other percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Genuine Negro Jig by Carolina Chocolate Drops
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Loops

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Other
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: 52 credits loops, drum loops, percussion loops on several songs
    • Release 2: Sieben/Seven on track 11
    • Release 3: Emotional Creatures: Part One by Steve Thorne, loops on one track --Shepard 17:17, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
    • Release 4: Part Two: Emotional Creatures by Steve Thorne, loops on one track, percussion loops on another --Shepard 17:17, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
    • Release 5: Into the Ether by Steve Thorne, loops on two tracks --Shepard 17:17, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer
    • This is a tricky case. I've seen some pedal device being used to start and stop recording a loop while playing an instrument and then later repeating it (or repeating several loops at once). This should be an instrument in the electronic instruments family. But the Wikipedia article also mentions samplers being used for that (and we already have sampler in the tree) or that you can just digitally repeat samples. That latter case is not an instrument being used, really. And how can you tell which of those an artist really did? Credits like "samples" and "sound effects"/"fx" are similar. --Shepard 18:43, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

Lur

• • AKA:
  • Description: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lur
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Skybrudd (track 11), performed by Gaute Vikdal
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Lyricon

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: A type of electronic wind instrument.
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Sound-System
    • Release 2: Wenn schon nicht für immer dann wenigstens für ewig on tracks 8 and 9
    • Release 3: The Beach Boys track 3
    • Release 4: 40 bandes originales pour 40 films (disc 5: La Boum)
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Marimbaphone

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Tuned Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Seeds
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • Used by Fats Sadi on Seeds, not currently credited -- Wizzcat 21:29, 09 August 2008 (UTC)

Marímbula

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: folk musical instrument of the Caribbean Islands (not to be confused with a marimba).
  • Instrument Family: Lamellophone
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: A Midwinter Night's Dream
    • Release 2: Un bruit qui court (marimbula by Simon Edwards)
    • Release 3: Head Hunters
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • Different to African lamellophones used to produce complex polyphony and polyrhythms, the marímbula basically plays the role of a bass guitar. -- Fabe56

Mexican Harp / Arpa de Mariachi

• • AKA:
  • Mexican Harp / Arpa de Mariachi
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Excitable Boy
    • Release 2: Ce soir c'est moi qui fais la fille
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • See 7165259. -- TimVanHolder 20:00, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Modular Synthesizer

• • AKA:
  • Description: Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Synthesizer
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: 1978-10-18: Shiba Yubin Chokin Hall, Tokyo, Japan on all tracks except track 1.
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:

Note that a Moog is a type of Modular synth. http://www.modcan.com/ has some good photos as well.

Morsing

• • AKA: "mourching", "morching" and "morchang"
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a south Indian percussion instrument
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Laya Tharangam - Mridangam
    • Release 2: Chidanandam
    • Release 3: Bhajans - Swami Dayananda Saraswathi
    • Release 4: Tala Vadya
    • Release 5: Flute
  • Comments:
    • According to this page, a morsing is identical to a jew's harp which we already have in the tree. If that's true, maybe it should just be added to the description for jew's harp instead. --Nikki 19:25, 8 November 2011 (UTC)

Music Sequencer

• • AKA: Sequencer
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: A device or application software that can record, edit, or play back musical notation
  • Instrument Family: Electronic Instruments
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Be Yourself Tonight
    • Release 2: Rendez-vous Tracks 4-6 as Electronic Instruments
    • Release 3: POSSIBILITY Track 2 as Electronic Instruments
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments: A drum machine is a type of sequencer, so if this is added it should be the parent of Drum Machine.

Nagadou-daiko

• • AKA: 長胴太鼓
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: An elongated Japanese drum.
  • Instrument Family: Percussion / ... / Taiko
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: 直感2〜逃した魚は大きいぞ!〜
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Ney

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The Art of the Middle Eastern Oud: New Perspectives on Traditional Magams
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer
      • Yes we do - as "Nai". There's several spellings for this one (Nai/Ney/Nye/Nay) -- TimVanHolder
        • The Nai in the list at the moment is a type of flute, not the drum. -- BrianFreud
          • Never heard Ney as percussion before. Maybe some links would be helpfull --ym

Njarka

• • AKA: N'jarka
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a small fiddle made from a gourd, with one gut string, which is native to Mali.
  • Instrument Family: String instruments
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The River by Ali Farka Touré
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Ngoni

• • AKA: N'goni, N'gone
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a plucked string instrument from West Africa, possibly an ancestor of the banjo.
  • Instrument Family: String instruments
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: AfroCubism by Afrocubism
    • Release 2: Segu Blue by Ngoni Ba
    • Release 3: I Speak Fula by Ngoni Ba
    • Release 4: Songhai 2 by Ketama et al.
    • Release 5:
  • Comments: The sleeve notes for release 1 credit Bassekou Kouyate with both ngoni and ngoni ba - so I must assume they are different, but I do not know how.

Nintendo

• • AKA:
  • Description: ?
  • Instrument Family: ?
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Power Supply
    • Release 2: Dawn Metropolis
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Nyabinghi Drums (Funde, Thunder, Repeater/Keteh)

• • AKA: Rastafarian/jamaican drums
  • Wikipedia and drums
  • Description: played at a groundation ceremony in rasta culture. Nyabinghi music is played in 4/4 time on three drums:

Thunder: It is a double-headed bass drum, played with a mallet. The strokes are an open tone on 1 and a dampened stroke on 3. Occasionally, the thunder player will syncopate the rhythm.

Funde: The funde is the middle drum. It maintains the dominant heartbeat rhythm as the funde player makes steady, dampened strokes on 1 and 3.

Repeater/Keteh: The repeater or keteh, is the smallest and highest pitched drum. The drummer tends to play around 2 and 4 , with a syncopated feel. It is seen as the carrier of spirit and fire of the music.

Maybe these are two specific, but noting here in case they are credited this way on other releases. These are roughly equivalent to other standard percussion instruments like "bass drum", congas, bongos etc.

• • Instrument Family: Drums / Nyabinghi drums (preferably with an instrument each for the three)
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Light by Matisyahu
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Ocarina, Triple-chambered

• • AKA: Bass Ocarina
  • Description: Ocarina
  • Instrument Family: Woodwinds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: 40 bandes originales pour 40 films (disc 1: Alexandre le bienheureux / Clérambard)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Organo di Legno

• • AKA: Wooden Pipe Organ
  • Description: A small chamber organ with wooden pipes which was well known in the Renaissance, but of which there appear to be no other surviving examples except for one made by Lorenzo da Pavia in Venice in 1494 that is now kept in the Museo Correr, Venice, Italy. Such instruments were prized for their sweet sound, described as "soave". Lorenzo's organ was pitched at a' = 455 Hz (± 4 Hz), one of the fairly high Venetian instrumental pitches. The compass is F,G-f³ (i.e. no F#), which retains the possibility of using the upper part of the range for repeating melodies at the octave.
  • Instrument Family: Winds / Keyboard
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Alfons V el Magnànim: El Cancionero de Montecassino (La Capella Reial de Catalunya feat. conductor: Jordi Savall) (disc 2) on tracks 6 and 17
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Optigan

• Wikipedia
• Description: An electronic keyboard instrument with pre-recorded optical soundtracks to reproduce sound
• Instrument Family: Electronic instruments
• Appears On:
  • Release 1: It's a Wonderful Life on tracks 1, 2, 6, 8, 11, 12
  • Release 2: Frank's Wild Years on tracks 2, 4, 8, 10
  • Release 3:
  • Release 4:
  • Release 5:

Orchestron

• Wikipedia
• Description: A keyboard instrument, which produces its sound through electronic amplification of sound pre-recorded on an optical disc.
• Instrument Family: Electronic instruments
• Appears On:
  • Release 1: It's a Wonderful Life on tracks 1, 2, 9, 12
  • Release 2:
  • Release 3:
  • Release 4:
  • Release 5:

Orpharion

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: A plucked instrument from the Renaissance, whose metal strings are tuned like a lute and are plucked with the fingers.
  • Instrument Family: Cittern
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Downland · Jones: Lute Songs (Emma Kirkby, soprano; Anthony Rooley, lute, orpharion) (disc 1) on tracks 4-6, 10, 12-14 and 16-17
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Ōtsuzumi

• • AKA: 大鼓
  • Description: Hourglass shaped Japanese drum, larger than the kotsuzumi
  • Wikipedia: wikipedia:Ōtsuzumi
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: 能楽〜室町の仮面劇
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Pandeiro

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a type of hand frame drum
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Music For Alfonso The Wise (The Dufay Collective) in tracks 4, 17, and 18
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Pandereta

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: Wikipedia links it to 'tambourine', but it's an incorrect translation. The Pandereta is a Puerto Rican franc drum, which is in the same family, but not the same as a tambourine.
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: New York Counterpoint
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • BrianSchweitzer 03:19, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
    • Be careful, though. Pandereta does mean Tambourine in European Spanish.

Pandero

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia (translated)
  • Description: Described in the liner as a "Spanish franc drum", looks like it's a relative of the tambourine.
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: New York Counterpoint
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Pipe and Tabor

• Description: a somewhat specialized pipe and tambourine-esque pair, played in combination.
• Instrument Family: Winds, percussion
• Appears on:
  • Release 1: Vandals of Hammerwich from Morris On
  • Release 2:
  • Release 3:
  • Release 4:
  • Release 5:
• Comments:
  • Could possibly be implemented as separate instruments

Player Piano

• • Issue:
  • AKA: Reproducing Piano
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: Player pianos play themselves, but esp. in the reproducing versions, rather than being programmed like midi tracks, they were actually played by someone, and the roll thus produced became the piano roll.
  • Instrument Family: Other
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Gershwin Plays Gershwin: The Piano Rolls
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Pocket Trumpet

• • Issue: Ticket #3536
  • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Brass
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: First Egg
    • Release 2: Man with a Movie Camera
    • Release 3: Seeds of Time
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • a compact size B♭ trumpet, easy to carry around. Though never was considered good enough to be in official use in orchestras, it was featured quite some times in small jazz bands. Don Cherry is Mr. Pocket Trumpet, and him alone has dozen of releases on which he uses it (also check most Ornette Coleman releases where he features) - revealing this somewhat neglected poor trumpet its true potential. All these are currently documented as simply trumpet. Note this is not the same as the Piccolo Trumpet that we now have. More about the thingie at wackypedia. -- dmppanda 05:24, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Polynesian Log Drums

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Big Ones
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Post horn

• • AKA: coach horn, posthorn, post-horn
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: The post horn is a valveless cylindrical brass or copper instrument with cupped mouthpiece, used to signal the arrival or departure of a post rider or mail coach. It was used especially by postilions of the 18th and 19th centuries.
    Mozart, Mahler, and others incorporated the instrument into their orchestras for certain pieces. On such occasions, the orchestra's horn player usually plays the instrument. One example of post horn use in modern classical music is the famous off-stage solo in Mahler's Third Symphony. Due to the scarcity of this instrument, however, music written for it is usually played on a trumpet or flugelhorn.
  • Instrument Family: Brass
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Complete Mozart Edition, Volume 3: Serenades for Orchestra (disc 7)
    • Release 2: Edition Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sérénades (disc 4)
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • Used by Michael Laird on Complete Mozart Edition, Volume 3: Serenades for Orchestra (disc 7), and likely other discs on the 180 CD Mozart set.
      I added the ticket before seeing this wiki page (and therefore without discussion). :( -- Crazee canuck 23:01, 12 July 2009 (UTC)

Pots & Pans

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: A Portrait (disc 1) (tracks 5-8)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Prepared Guitar

• AKA: Tabletop Guitar
• Wikipedia:Prepared guitar
• Instrument Family: Guitar
• Description: A prepared guitar is a guitar which has had its timbre altered by placing various objects on or between the instrument's strings, including other extended techniques. This practice is sometimes called tabletop guitar, because many prepared guitarists do not hold the instrument in the usual manner, but instead place the guitar on a table to manipulate it. (from Wikipedia)
• Tagged With: instrument-prepared guitar
• Appears On:
  • Release 1: Alanis Morissette – Flavors of Entanglement (track 7)
  • Release 2:
  • Release 3:
  • Release 4:
  • Release 5:
• Comments:
  • This seems kind of like a style of playing, involving manipulating an instrument in non-standard ways by adding to it. It seems to be applicable to nearly any instrument, but the only two examples on Wikipedia that use the "prepared" terminolody are Guitar and Piano.

Ramana

• • AKA:
  • Ramana
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: New York Counterpoint
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A type of drum, not seeing much info on it. There is a picture of one at the linked site, however. -- BrianSchweitzer 03:19, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Rackett

• • AKA:
  • Description: Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Winds (bassoon-like)
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Alchemist
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:

Rawap

• • AKA:
  • Description: Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Stringed instrument
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Reactable

• • AKA: Reactable Systems
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: electronic musical instrument with a tabletop
  • Instrument Family: Electronic instruments
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Voltaic
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Official website

Rebana

• • AKA:
  • Description: a small frame drum used in Islamic devotional music in traditional Malay culture. (Wikipedia)
  • Instrument Family: Percussion, Frame Drum
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Louder than Light by Wicked Aura Batacada (credited as Kompang, smaller version)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • Could be added with Kompang as a sub-instrument, but as Kompang is I believe just a smaller version adding Rebana may suffice.

Renaissance Harp

• • AKA:
  • Description: The Renaissance Harp is based on the 15th-16th harps that have survived through the centuries. It was used during the Renaissance to the 17th century. With two orders chromatically tuned, it can interpret the Renaissance repertoire, covering parts for virginal, Renaissance lute, etc., and in its shape we see the "Gothic" style of the stylized harps in the late Middle Ages, though this style remained until now into the Baroque.
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Alfons V el Magnànim: El Cancionero de Montecassino (La Capella Reial de Catalunya feat. conductor: Jordi Savall) (disc 1) on tracks 1 to 14 and 36 to 47
    • Release 2: Alfons V el Magnànim: El Cancionero de Montecassino (La Capella Reial de Catalunya feat. conductor: Jordi Savall) (disc 2) on track 2
    • Release 3: Fantasies, Pavanes & Gallardes
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Requinto Jarocho

• • AKA:
  • Requinto Jarocho
  • Description: Small guitar
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Excitable Boy
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • See 7165294. -- TimVanHolder 20:00, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Sabar

• • AKA:
  • wikipedia
  • Description: Traditional Senegalese drum.
  • Instrument Family: Drums
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Big Blue Ball on track 7
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Sansula

• • AKA:
  • http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Sansula.JPG
  • Description: a variant of the kalimba
  • Instrument Family: Lamellophone
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Unerreichbar on tracks 3 & 12
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Satsuma Biwa

• • AKA: 薩摩琵琶
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: A biwa with four strings and frets popularised during the Edo period.
  • Instrument Family: Strings / ... / Biwa
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: 琵琶〜哀・吟遊
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Scratches

• • AKA: Scratching
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: technique used to produce distinctive sounds by moving a vinyl record back and forth on a turntable while manipulating the crossfader on a DJ mixer.
  • Instrument Family: Other
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Loveheart on track 8 Mentor
    • Release 2: A Recipe for Disaster on track 4 Mr. Quicke Cuts the Cheese
    • Release 3: Xiquembo on track 4 Back to Love
    • Release 4: 恋のフーガ
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer
      • We have "Turntable(s)"? -- FrederikSOlesen 10:12, 09 March 2008 (UTC)

Shime-daiko

• • AKA: 締太鼓
  • Description: A small Japanese drum which has a higher pitch than a normal taiko.
  • Wikipedia: Shime-daiko
  • Instrument Family: Percussion / ... / Taiko
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: 幸せきょうりゅう音頭
    • Release 2: 直感2〜逃した魚は大きいぞ!〜
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Shudraga

• • AKA: Shanz, ショダルガ, Shadraga
  • Description: A Mongolian fretless lute with three strings.
  • Instrument Family: String instruments / ... / Lute
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: モンゴルの歌
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • Probably related to the sanxian. Nikki 02:56, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Siku

• • AKA: Antara, Sicu, Sicus, Zampolla, Zampoña.
  • Description: Andean panpipes.
  • Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Pan Flute
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The Next Voice You Hear Track 11 as Pan Flute
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Sintir

• • AKA: سنتير‎, Guembri (Arabic: الكمبري‎), Gimbri or Hejhouj.
  • Description: three stringed skin-covered bass plucked lute.
  • Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: A Midwinter Night's Dream
    • Release 2: Naked Lunch
    • Release 3: Mount Analogue
    • Release 4: Je suis une tombe
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Slide Trumpet

• • Wikipedia
  • Description: The slide trumpet is a type of trumpet that is fitted with a slide much like a trombone.
  • Instrument Family: Brass
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The Band
    • Release 2: How I Spent My Vacation
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Soprano Guitar

• • AKA: Octave Guitar
  • Description: Tuned one octave over an ordinary guitar
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Hoven Droven, track 3
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Spilåpipa

• • AKA: spelpipa, spälapipa, låtapipa
  • Description: Swedish folk music instrument, a type of fipple flute: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spil%C3%A5pipa
  • Instrument Family: Flutes
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Återbesök i holken, track 5
    • Release 2: Med vilken rätt, track 8
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Spinet

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: A small piano, harpsichord or organ
  • Instrument Family: Keyboard
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Spike
    • Release 2: In meiner Mitte on track 5
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Steelwhistle

• • AKA:
  • Description: Similar to a tin whistle??
  • Instrument Family:
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: After the Fall
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Sub Octivider

• • AKA:
  • Description: An effect pedal for electric guitars
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Coda
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Suona

• • AKA: Laba
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: A woodwind instrument used frequently in the folk music of northern China. With its loud and high-pitched sound, souna has, together with other instruments, been used to provide music of Chinese opera and for various occasions, such as wedding and funeral.
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Lingering
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

SynthAxe

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Tack piano

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a permanently altered version of an ordinary piano
  • Instrument Family: Keyboard
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Le Pop
    • Release 2: A Kiss Before You Go on track 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • See Prepared Piano

Tap dancing

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Gibraltar
    • Release 2: Who Used to Dance
    • Release 3: Complete Recorded Works 1939-1947 in Chronological Order: Volume 1
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. See discussion below.

Tape

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Other
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Another Green World by Brian Eno
    • Release 2: Skybrudd (many songs) by Various Artists.
    • Release 3: Epicycle by Jani Christou.
    • Release 4: The Big Gundown Tracks 2 & 7-9 as Electronic Instruments.
    • Release 5: 28/04/2001 by Costis Drygianakis / Nikos Veliotis as Electronic Instruments.
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Tar (drum)

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: A tar is a single-headed frame drum. The tar comes from North Africa and the Middle East.
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Tindfjöll has tar performed by Matthieu Rabaté
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Tenor trombone

• • AKA:
  • Description: Variation of trombone
  • Instrument Family: Wind brass
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Skybrudd (track 9), performed by Gaute Vikdal
    • Release 2: Nut Sack
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Thon

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: Described in the liner as 'Thai drums'. Wikipedia describes it as a "goblet-shaped drum, played with the hands".
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: New York Counterpoint
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • BrianSchweitzer 03:19, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Timber flute

• • AKA:
  • image search
  • Description: Maybe a kind of celtic flute
  • Instrument Family: Flute
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Celtic Moon (Cormac Breatnach)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Time Machine

• • AKA: Folktek Time Machine
  • Wikipedia: ?
  • Description: A type of custom sequencer / samplable synthesiser made by Folktek
  • Instrument Family: Electronic Instruments
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Freak Controller - Salmonella Dub
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Tovshuur

• • AKA: Tobshuur, Topshuur, トヴショール
  • Description: A Mongolian plucked lute with two strings. The head of the neck is shaped like a swan.
  • Instrument Family: String instruments / ... / Lute
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: モンゴルの歌
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Tromboon

• • AKA: Babone
  • Wikipedia
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Brass
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: PDQ Bach - The Seasonings
    • Release 2: PDQ Bach - Serenude (for devious instruments)
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Tumbi

• • Description: A traditional North Indian high pitched, single string plucking instrument from the Punjab region associated with folk music of Punjab and presently very popular in Western Bhangra music.
  • Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: In the Zone (Me Against the Music (Rishi Rich's Desi Kulcha mix))
    • Release 2: Miss E... So Addictive (Get Ur Freak On)
    • Release 3: The Album (Mundian to bach ke)
    • Release 4: Rise & Fall (Rise & Fall (Rishi Rich Desi Kulcha remix) (feat. Juggy D))
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Valiha

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a bamboo tube zither from Madagascar. It is played by plucking the strings, which may be made of metal or (originally) the bamboo skin which is pried up in long strands and propped up by small bridges.
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The Sensual World
    • Release 2: WALL·E
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Viol / treble viol / viola da gamba / bass viol / violone / vihuela / viola da mano / Spanish vihuela / Mexican vihuela

Viol - (copying this section out of my original listing of the Viol in revision 198):

• Viol - for "early music" and period instruments classical recordings
  • treble viol
  • viola da gamba - A tenor viol, evolved from the vihuela de arco

• According to Wikipedia, "viol" and "viola da gamba" are the same... ? -- FrederikSOlesen 08:45, 01 May 2008 (UTC)
  • Wikipedia uses the terms somewhat confusingly, using the historical term and the modern term interchangably. "Viol" is generic, and one can (anachranistically) refer to the "Viola da gamba" family (as their linked to Viola da Gamba Society does) - the term once was used for all types, with octive ranges prefixed. So in the 1700's, one might have played a bass viola da gamba. In modern terminology, however, though the term can still be used generically for the family, "Viol" is the much more commonly used generic term, with the particular octive types titled as listed here ("bass viol", "treble viol", etc), with a reference to "so and so: viola da gamba" specifically being intended to mean what that same 1700's player would have called a tenor viola da gamba. When I layed out this instrument list, from Viol down to Mexican vihuela, I tried to lay it out as the tree would branch out under modern terminology. (While the "Viol" at top could be "Viola da Gamba", having it twice, once as the specific and once as the anachronicstic generic seems like it'd be much more confusing.) -- BrianSchweitzer 09:12, 01 May 2008 (UTC)

• • bass viol
  • violone - Sub-type of the viol family, evolved into the modern double bass
  • vihuela - Subtype of the viol, has a few different subtypes itself:
    • viola da mano (aka Spanish vihuela) - evolved into the classical guitar
    • Mexican vihuela - Mariachi

Baritone Viola

• • AKA:
  • Description: A viola with heavy strings which plays an octave lower?
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: English Fiddler: Swarbrick Plays Swarbrick
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Violino piccolo

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: A stringed instrument of the baroque period. Most examples are similar to a child's size violin in size, and are tuned a third or a fourth higher.
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1, 2 & 3
    • Release 2: Brandenburg Concertos / Violin Concertos (Bath Festival Orchestra feat. conductor, violin: Yehudi Menuhin) (disc 1)
    • Release 3: Brandenburgische Konzerte 1-6 / Ouvertüren 1-4 (Collegium Aureum)
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Viololyra

• • AKA: Βιολολύρα
  • Description: A mix of the Cretan lyra and violin
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Με κόντρα τον καιρό
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments: The Viololyra is manufactured with the same materials as the common lyra, however is different in its shape. After seeing the violin, which came to Greece from the rest of Europe, many instrument manufacturers were influenced and created the viololyra. Its trademark is that it has 4 chords and resembles the shape of the violin, to an extent. http://goo.gl/qnH9M

Vienna Horn

• • AKA: Wiener Horn
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: Specific type of horn used primarily in Vienna, Austria
  • Instrument Family: Brass
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Hornkonzerte (Wiener Philharmoniker feat. conductor: Karl Böhm, horn: Günter Högner)
    • Release 2: Director's Cut
    • Release 3: Wandern mit Strauß, Schubert, Brahms
    • Release 4: Vienna Horns
    • Release 5:
  • Comments: According to Wikipedia both the Vienna Philharmonic and the Vienna State Opera Orchestra use these. --Mineo 10:50, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

Virginal(s)

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: Renaissance instrument from the harpsichord family
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Das Cambridge Buch der Musik (disc 1/track 15)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Weissenborn Guitar

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: Specific type of lap steel guitar
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The Border of Heaven
    • Release 2: Vapaapäivä on track 5
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • See 8653789 -- TimVanHolder 20:00, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Wooden Bowl

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: New York Counterpoint
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • Probably quite similar logic to the Wooden spoons below. I also have seen another release (A Canticle for Leibowitz) with a Pyrex bowl (ie, 'glass bowl') credit, in both cases used as a percussion instrument. -- BrianSchweitzer 03:19, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Wooden spoons

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Percussion?
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Dark Ages
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • Alexsander Hrenov is credited playing wooden spoons on Dark Ages. We do have spoons included in the instruments list but does the matterial of the instrument deserve to be included as separate entries? I don't know spoons as an instrument but if there's just a small selection of spoons in different materials availble we might as well include it. -- Prodoc 15:20, 08 March 2008 (UTC)
      • Well, wooden and metal (kitchen) spoons are by far the most common types of spoons, though bone/horn spoons are also out there. As a spoons player, I could probably give you a lengthier rant about the qualities of each type, but for the sake of this discussion, let me just say that there are different kinds of spoons, and the material does have an effect on the produced sound. :) -- FrederikSOlesen 00:03, 09 March 2008 (UTC)

Xaphoon

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: A Kiss Before You Go on track 6
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Yatga

• • AKA: Yatag, ятга, ヤタッグ
  • Description: A Mongolian plucked zither.
  • Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: String instruments / ... / Zither
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: モンゴルの歌
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Yoochin

• • AKA: Yochin, ヨーチン
  • Description: A Mongolian hammered dulcimer.
  • Instrument Family: String instruments / ... / Hammered dulcimer
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: モンゴルの歌
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  • Comments:
    • Probably related to the yangqin. Nikki 02:56, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Miscellaneous requests

Chalumeau

• • Instrument Family: recategorize under Woodwind / Singular reed
  • Comments: see Wikipedia

Instruments with no releases listed

Afoxé

• Description: a gourd (cabaça) wrapped in a net in which beads or small plastic balls are threaded, shaken to be played.
• Wikipedia: Afoxé
• Instrument Family: Percussion
• Appears On:
  • No releases listed.
• Comments:

A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Amiga

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Arco Bass

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    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Atari 2600

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Bellowphone

• • AKA:
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  • Instrument Family: Winds
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    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Blaster Beam

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  • Instrument Family: Strings
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    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Buk

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: Korean drum played with one hand and one stick
  • Instrument Family: Percussion, drums
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: 한국 rock 다시 부르기
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Bullroarer

• • AKA:
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  • Instrument Family: Other
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    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Byzaanchi

• • AKA:
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  • Instrument Family: Strings
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Caixa

• • AKA:
  • Caixa
  • Description: a Brazilian snare drum used in samba music
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Chanter

• • AKA:
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  • Instrument Family: Winds
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    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Chanzy

• • AKA:
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  • Instrument Family: Strings
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    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Ching

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: Chinese finger cymbals
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
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    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Dhol

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: an Indian and Pakistani barrel drum
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Doshpuluur

• • AKA: Toshpuluur
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a plucked, banjo-like, long-necked lute used in the Tuva region of Mongolia.
  • Instrument Family: Strings
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Double-reed Slide Music Stand

• • AKA:
  • Description: An oboe read crossed with a music stand into a funky slidebar instrument.
  • Instrument Family: Winds
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  • Comments:
    • Used by, who else, PDQ Bach. -- BrianSchweitzer 11:26, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Drone

• • AKA:
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  • Instrument Family: Other? Winds?
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    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer
    • Is this an actual instrument of its own, or just generic droning (which can be done on most melody instruments)? -- FrederikSOlesen 10:12, 09 March 2008 (UTC)
      • I'm not sure - Discogs gives no description for this one, I'll have to try to dig it out of their change notes if they mean as you describe, if they perhaps mean a tanpura, or if they mean something else. -- BrianSchweitzer 11:46, 09 March 2008 (UTC)

Dunduk

• • AKA:
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  • Instrument Family: Winds
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    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Ektare

• • AKA:
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  • Instrument Family: Strings
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    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Flageolet

• • AKA:
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  • Instrument Family: Winds
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    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Flugabone

• • AKA:
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  • Instrument Family: Winds
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Ganzá

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a Brazilian rattle
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
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    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Guimbri

• • AKA:
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  • Instrument Family: Strings
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Homus

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Other
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Igil

• • AKA:
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  • Instrument Family: Strings
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Kabosy

• • AKA:
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  • Instrument Family: Strings
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Khene

• • AKA:
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  • Instrument Family: Winds
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Mandoguitar

• • AKA:
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  • Instrument Family: Strings
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Mizmar

• • AKA:
  • Description: Mizmar
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Προάγγελος on track 2
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Ocarina, Double-chambered

• • AKA: Treble Ocarina
  • Description: Ocarina
  • Instrument Family: Woodwinds
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Outi

• • AKA:
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  • Instrument Family: Strings
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Pedalboard

• • AKA:
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  • Instrument Family: Other
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Piccolo trumpet

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Brass
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    • Mozart also wrote several works for trumpet quintet, which includes a piccolo trumpet. Again, to properly AR several CDs in the 170 CD set, I need this one too. -- BrianSchweitzer 06:21, 03 November 2007 (UTC)

Pipe

• • AKA:
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  • Instrument Family: Winds
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Pixiephone

• • AKA:
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  • Instrument Family: Winds
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Rauschpfeife

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Appears On:
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Reco-reco

• • AKA:
  • Reco-reco
  • Description: a specific type of Brazilian Güiro
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. The orangish picture on the left is a reco-reco (picture is correctly identified in the Portugese page). -- BrianSchweitzer

Regal

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Other
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Repinique

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a 2-headed Brazilian drum
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The Big Gundown Track 1 as Other Percussion
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Rozhok

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Appears On:
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Ruan

• • AKA:
  • Description: Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer
    • Even if we have no specific releases for this one yet, it should be certainly kept. We already have 苗晓芸, a "notable Ruan player".

Saxobone

• • AKA:
  • Description: A trombine modified to accept a saxophone mouthpiece. Used by jazz player Eddie Harris (inventor?) among others.
  • Instrument Family: Brass? Winds?
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  • Comments:
    • BrianSchweitzer 11:26, 27 October 2007 (UTC)