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 Ricky Skaggs on Blue Kentucky Girl
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

7-string guitar

• • AKA: 7-string acoustic guitar
  • Description: an acoustic guitar with 7 strings
  • Instrument Family: Strings/Plucked string instruments
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Menina Played by Luiz Otávio Braga on track 5, credited as Spanish acoustic guitar
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

10-string guitar

• • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Played by GA Devine on track 21 of Naxos Guitar Collection Sampler
    • Release 2: Played by 渡辺等 (Hitoshi Watanabe) on track 4 of 永遠。
    • Release 3: Played by Stefan Östersjö on track 6 of Spanning: Scandinavian Electro Acoustic Music
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • See Naxos

11-string guitar

• • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Eleven-String Baroque
    • Release 2:
    • 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: Χρώμα on track 7
    • 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.

Afoxé

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: Afro-brazilian instrument, a small xequerê
  • Instrument Family: Percussion / ... / rattle
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Os Afro-Sambas de Baden e Vinicius
    • Release 2: Menina Played by Armando Marçal on tracks 2 and 9, credited as rattle
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

African Harp

• • Description:
  • Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Στην Ανδρομέδα και στη γη on track 3
    • Release 2: Βραχνός προφήτης on track 9
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Airpoles

• • AKA:
  • Description: long fiberglass rods that make a whiplike sound when waved through the air
  • Instrument Family: Percussion/Other?
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The Complex
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Alfaia drum

• • AKA: Alfaia
  • Description:
  • Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Indeecios credits Tikogó for "alfaia drum"
    • Release 2:
    • 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:

Analog synthesizer

• • AKA: Analog synth
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a synthesizer that uses analog circuits and techniques to produce sound
  • Instrument Family: Electronic Instruments/.../Synthesizer
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Heavy Rocks (2011) on track 3
    • Release 2: Medicine Compilation - From the Quiet Lodge Tracks 1 and 10 as synthesizer, played by Haruomi Hosono (more specifically, a Prophet-5)
    • Release 3: Dark Ages programmed by John Gray (another Prophet-5)
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Anvil

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a blacksmith's anvil played as a percussion instrument
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appear On:
    • Release 1: The Complex
    • Release 2:
    • 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 Played by Babatunde Olatunji and Kehinde O'Uhuru, credited as percussion
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Atabaque

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a type of brazilian hand drum
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Os Afro-Sambas de Baden e Vinicius
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Auto parts

• • AKA: Car parts
  • Description: Various automobile parts played as percussion instruments
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Let Them Talk (played by Jay Bellerose)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Backpack Tubulum

• • AKA:
  • Description: a small tubulum designed to be portable
  • Instrument Family: Tuned percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The Complex
    • Release 2:
    • 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: Sustainer guitar
  • Description: A modified electric guitar that uses electromagnetic waves to vibrate the strings
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Not Too Late on track 5
    • 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)
        • You might want to read this. It's a pretty interesting contraption (and yes, it is a separate and unique instrument). -- HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 20:40, 4 January 2013 (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
    • Release 2:
    • 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: Solo: Oldtime Country Music by Mike Seeger (track 5)
    • 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: Clas Pehrsson performs...
    • 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: Danza y diferencias, all tracks
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:

Baroque Lute

• • Links: 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 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:
  • Links: 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 Bodhrán

• • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Description: An Irish frame drum; a lower version of the bodhrán.
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The Chieftains 4 (played by Seán Potts)
    • Release 2: The Best of Altan (played by Tommy Hayes, Dónal Lunny)
    • Release 3: Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers (played by John Anthony)
    • Release 4: Sean-Nós Nua (played by Dónal Lunny)
    • Release 5: Common Ground: Voices of Modern Irish Music (played by Dónal Lunny)

Bass Trumpet

• • Instrument Family: Brass
  • Description: A type of low trumpet which was first developed during the 1820s in Germany.
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Horn Played by Noah Gladstone, credited as trumpet
    • Release 2: Everything Is Everything as "Trumpet" by Cyril Touff
    • 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

Bicycle bell

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a metal level-activated bell like what would be found on a bicycle
  • Instrument Family: Tuned percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Straight Outta Lynwood Played by Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz on track 2, credited as bells
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Bird call

• • AKA:
  • Description: a wooden or metal whistle made to sound like a bird's song
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Straight Outta Lynwood Played by Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz on track 5, credited as tin whistle
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A duck call is a type of bird call. Maybe it should be filed under this when and if it gets added. -- HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 04:41, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

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:

Bulb horn

• • AKA: Bicycle horn, taxi horn, squeeze horn
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a small metal horn sounded by squeezing a rubber bulb (often found on bicycles and early automobiles)
  • Instrument Family: Winds/Other
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Straight Outta Lynwood Track 5 as horn
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Car horn

• • AKA: Vehicle horn, novelty horn, クラクション
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: an electric horn like what would be found in a car
  • Instrument Family: Winds/Electronic Instruments/Other
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: 3rd -LOVEパラダイス- Track 3 as horn
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments: In Japan, the term "klaxon" (クラクション) is used to refer to both car horns and actual klaxons. In the context of 3rd -LOVEパラダイス- (the English word "Klaxon" is even listed in the liner notes) it refers to a car horn, not an industrial klaxon. -- HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 23:20, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

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:

Chirimia

• • AKA: Cheremia
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: Latin American type of oboe
  • Instrument Family: woodwind
    • Release 1: On the Way to Bethlehem (Music of the Medieval Pilgrim)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Chitarra battente

• • AKA:
  • Description: Description in Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The Lotus Eaters: Tribute to Dead Can Dance on track 4
    • 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:

Clarinet in D

• • AKA:
  • Description: Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Clarinet
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Gurrelieder / Chamber Symphony No. 1 / Verklärte Nacht
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Combo organ

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a small, portable electronic organ
  • Instrument Family: Electronic organ
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: JET CD as electronic organ
    • 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:
    • Release 1: Deus Ex Machinae
    • Release 2: Zoids
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • The band Machinae Supremacy utilize the SID chip using a proprietary synthesizing device called a SidStation. Could this be listed as a separate instrument? --HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 06:49, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

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
    • 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:
    • Release 1: Lovely on the Water on track 10
    • 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:

Corno da caccia

• • AKA:
  • Description: [1]
  • Instrument Family: Brass
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Estonian Music Now 2011 on track 4 (played by Aleksei Saks)
    • Release 2: Ludwig Güttler in der Frauenkirche Dresden on tracks 6-9, 12-13, 15, 19-20
    • 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:

Daibouka

• • AKA:
  • Description: Not sure; some kind of percussion instrument (but NOT another name for the darbuk)
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Aura
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
• I thought at first that this was another name for the darbuk (goblet drum, in the tree) but then I noticed that the same artist (Luis Jardim) is credited with playing the "dunbec" (another name for the same instrument) along with this. I tried Googling for it but nothing came up. Can anyone help? --HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 02:37, 27 September 2012 (UTC)

Damper

• • AKA: Guitar damper, damper pedal (?)
  • Description: A type of guitar effect device
  • Instrument Family: Electronic or Other Instruments (depending on which one this turns out to be)
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Astro Lounge as electronic instruments (played by Chris Racine)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments: I initially thought this was a type of effects pedal, but I learned it could also mean a plastic device placed under the strings to dampen the sound. It's possible the term could be used for both. -- HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 10:49, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Dictaphone

• • Wikipedia
  • Description: Speech playback device
  • Instrument Family: Other instruments
  • 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:

Diddley bow

• • Wikipedia
  • Description: The diddley bow is a string instrument of African origin made popular in America, probably developed from instruments found on the Ghana coast of west Africa. The diddley bow is rarely heard outside the rural south. Other nicknames for this instrument include “jitterbug” or “one-string,” while an ethnomusicologist would formally call it a “monochord zither.”
  • Instrument Family: string instrument
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Afro-American Folk Music: From Tate and Panola Counties, Mississippi Track 8, Compton Jones "Shake 'em on Down"
    • Release 2:
    • 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:

Drill

• • AKA: Power drill
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: A power tool used to bore holes in surfaces.
  • Instrument Family: Other
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: JOURNEY on Track 1
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Drinking glass

• • AKA: Glass, glass cup, wine glass, etc.
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: A glass drinking glass whose rim is rubbed with a wet finger to produce sound (what inspired Benjamin Franklin to invent the glass armonica)
  • Instrument Family: Tuned percussion/Other?
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Intensive Care Track 12 "Wine Glass"
    • Release 2: Let Them Talk on track 12 (credited as "Glass of scotch" in the liner notes, played by Jay Bellerose)
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Drumulum

• • AKA:
  • Description: a drum with a piece of PVC pipe mounted over it to act as a resonator
  • Instrument Family: Tuned percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The Complex
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Duck call

• • AKA:Entenfänger
  • Wikipedia
  • Links: 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: Straight Outta Lynwood Played by Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz on track 5, credited as other flutes
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Duggi

• • AKA: dugi, dukkar
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: The duggi, dugi or dukkar, is an Indian drum, with a kettle drum shape, played with fingers and palm of the hand. It is a folk drum in Uttar Pradesh (duggi) and Punjab (dukkar).
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Anthology of World Music: North Indian Classical Music (disc 3)
    • Release 2:
    • 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: The Complex
  • 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)
    • Even so, couldn't we add this as a generic credit (for instances where the release does not specify)? --HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 22:37, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

Dulcitone

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: A dulcitone is a keyboard instrument in which sound is produced by a tuning forks which vibrate when struck by hammers activated by the keyboard
  • Instrument Family: Piano
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Just Another Diamond Day as piano by John James
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Dumpster

• • AKA: Dumpstulum
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: an overturned metal dumpster that is jumped on and struck to produce sound
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The Complex
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

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: Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
    • Release 6: Heavy Rocks (2011) as electronic instruments (more specifically, echo)
    • Release 7: Tales From the Twilight World Piet Sielck and Mathias Wiesneras as electronic instruments
    • Release 8: Astro Lounge All tracks as electronic instruments (played by Mark Camp, credited in the liner notes as "Sci-Fi Stylings")
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer
      • In Discogs Effects are credited 14634 times in release level and 9489 in track level Jokipii 21 June 2012

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:

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:
  • Links: image search
  • Description: Electric bouzouki
  • Instrument Family: Bouzouki
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Celtic Moon (Niall O'Callánain)
    • Release 2: Χρώμα on track 6
    • 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: 12 Golden Country Greats as bass (played by Pete Wade)
    • Release 3: Dr. Feelgood (played by Nikki Sixx, credited as electric bass guitar)
    • Release 4: The Dreaming (8-string)
    • Release 5: New Times Brian Ritchie plays 12-string bass
  • Comments:
    • On "Dr. Feelgood", Nikki Sixx is credited as playing 4-string, 8-string and 12-string bass guitars. I merged the separate entries for those instruments into this. If this instrument is ever added to the tree, can we have a text input box stating how many strings? --HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 16:26, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

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)

Field organ

• • AKA:
  • Links: [2]
  • Description: A portable reed organ
  • Instrument Family: Free reed/.../Reed organ
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Let Them Talk as reed organ (played by Patrick Warren)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:'
  • Comments:

Flageolet

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Woodwind
  • Wikipedia
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Kronomakia
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:'
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Flamenco guitar

• • Description: a guitar traditionally used in flamenco music, smaller and lighter than a normal classical guitar
  • Instrument Family: Guitars
  • Wikipedia
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: 歌姫 Complete Box Empress (discs 2 and 5)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Isn't this just a Spanish acoustic guitar? (already in the tree)

It might be, though Wikipedia identifies "Spanish acoustic guitar" as a synonym for a classical guitar. We might need an expert to clarify.HibiscusKazeneko

Flat mandolin

• • AKA:
  • Description: presumably either a flat-topped or flat-backed mandolin (Google results were inconclusive)
  • Instrument Family: Strings/.../Mandolin
  • Wikipedia
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: MISSLIM Track 7 as mandolin
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • This might be a wasei-eigo term. If anyone knows of any English-language information on this instrument, please let me know. --HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 08:26, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

Flexitone

• • AKA: Flexatone
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a rubber-and-metal frame rattle
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Straight Outta Lynwood Played by Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz on track 5, credited as vibraslap
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Foot bells

• • Description: straps lined with jingle bells worn around a dancer's ankles
  • Instrument Family: Bells
  • Links: [3]
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Go West as bells
    • Release 2: The Very Best of the Village People as bells
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Frame drum set

• • Description: set of frame drums
  • Instrument Family: Percussion, Frame Drum, Drum set
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Genuine Negro Jig
    • 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.

Game Boy

• • AKA:
  • Description: the sound chip from the Nintendo Game Boy handheld console, played as a MIDI instrument
  • Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Electronic Instruments
  • Appears On:
    • 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 Game Boy 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)
      • It's an instrument credit, so we'll need to figure out who played it on which tracks and so on. Tracking down the people who made all those edits might be difficult at this point. --HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 06:35, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

Ganzá

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a Brazilian rattle
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Menina Played by Armando Marçal on tracks 2 and 3 (credited as shakers on track 2, rattle on track 3); played by 小野リサ (Lisa Ono) on track 4 (credited as rattle); played by Marçal on track 12 (credited as rattle)
    • Release 2: Chico Buarque Played by Wilson Canegal on tracks 1, credited as shakers
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Gittern

• • AKA:
  • Description: Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Strings (ancestor to guitar, lute, mandolin)
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Alchemist
    • Release 2: On the Way to Bethlehem (Music of the Medieval Pilgrim)
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:

Gizmo

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: An effects device for the electric guitar invented by member of 10cc
  • Instrument Family: Electric guitar
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The Original Soundtrack (as "electric guitar" on track 5)
    • Release 2: Sheet Music (on track 4 from wikipedia article)
    • Release 3: How Dare You! (from wikipedia article)
    • Release 4: Remote Luxury (on track 2 from wikipedia article)
    • Release 5: Juju (on track 2 from wikipedia article)

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:
  • Comments: Isn't this just "jug"? Or is it honestly played as a percussion instrument instead of a wind instrument? -- HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 05:52, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

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 Inner 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: Elephunk
    • Release 2: Recent Songs
    • Release 3: Hotel California
    • Release 4: The Pretender Track 3, now credited as acoustic bass guitar.
    • 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

Guitorgan

• • AKA:
  • Description: A Guitorgan is an electric guitar with electronic organ components added.
  • Instrument Family: Guitars
  • Wikipedia
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Des roses et des orties Eric Sauviat on track 5
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Halldorophone

• • AKA:
  • Links: [4]
  • 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: [5]

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:

Heavenizer

• • AKA: Heavynizer, ヘヴナイザー
  • Links: [6]
  • Description: a custom sampling device invented by Susumu Hirasawa
  • Instrument Family: Electronic Instruments
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: ANOTHER GAME All tracks as sampler
    • Release 2:
    • 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)

Junjun drum

• • AKA: Jun-jun drum
  • Links:
  • Description: an African two-headed drum with external snares
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Devil's Got Your Tongue Played by Gordy Ryan, credited as percussion
    • 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

Keytar

• • AKA:
  • Description: A keytar is a relatively lightweight keyboard (with or without a built-in synthesizer) that is supported by a strap around the neck and shoulders, similar to the way a guitar is supported by a strap. -- Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family:
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Homestuck, Volume 9 track 11 credits Erik Scheele for "keytar"
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Glass and Komboloi

• • AKA: Potirokomboloi, Potirokoboloi, Ποτηρομπολόι, Ποτήρι - κομπολόι
  • Description:A komboloi is string of beads. Traditionally it's used to relieve stress and keep ones hands busy (Wikipedia) it was sometimes used in rebetika songs with a glass to make a distinctive "glass-y" sound. The "organ" has also been used again in recent times.
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Στην Ανδρομέδα και στη γη by Θανάσης Παπακωνσταντίνου on track 7
    • Release 2: Αγία Νοσταλγία by Θανάσης Παπακωνσταντίνου on tracks 7 and 11
    • Release 3: Ο σαμάνος by Θανάσης Παπακωνσταντίνου & Διονύσης Σαββόπουλος on track 4
    • Release 4: Μαγγανείες by Γιάννης Χαρούλης on track 3
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

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
    • 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.

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:

Latin percussion

• • AKA:
  • Description: a generic credit used to refer to percussion instruments typically used in Latin music
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: ミ・アモーレ〔Meu amor é…〕 as percussion
    • Release 2: 艶華 -Enka- Track 12 as percussion
    • Release 3: ファンタジー〈幻想曲〉 as percussion
    • Release 4: Candid Girl
    • Release 5: 遠ざかる風景 as percussion, played by 川原直美 (Naomi Kawahara) and ラリー寿永 (Larry Sunaga)
  • Comments: Yeah, I'm going out on a limb with this one. HibiscusKazeneko 23:51, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

"leg" percussion

• • AKA:
  • Description: percussion music performed with the legs, presumably
  • Instrument Family: other percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Genuine Negro Jig
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • Is this really different from "foot percussion"?--Reosarevok 14:37, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
      • It might be; foot percussion is made only with the feet while leg percussion could be something like knees clapping together, etc. I haven't actually heard or seen the songs it's mentioned for, so I don't know for sure. HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 07:53, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

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)
    • Release 6: Go! on track 3, programmed by Anthony J. Resta, credited as sampler --HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 05:16, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
    • Release 7: Heavy Rocks (2011) on Track 9, guest performed by Aaron Turner, credited as electronic instruments --HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 20:15, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
    • Release 8: Seasoned Eyes Were Beaming on track 6 (specifically a guitar loop), performed/programmed by Dustin O'Halloran -- HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 10:01, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer
      • In Discogs Loops are credited 3223 times in release level and 2769 in track level Jokipii 21 June 2012
    • 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

Mandeldrums

• • AKA:
  • Description: a set of vertical LED-lined drums, invented and played by Blue Man Group
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The Complex
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Mandocello

• • AKA: Mandoloncello, Liuto cantabile, Liuto moderno
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: A relative of the mandolin (larger and lower than a mandola)
  • Instrument Family: Strings/Plucked String Instruments/.../Mandola
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Let Them Talk as mandola (played by Greg Liesz)
    • Release 2: Think Before You Think on tracks 8, 9 & 10 (played by Garry Ó Briain)
    • Release 3: Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers (played by John Doyle)
    • Release 4: Splendido Hotel (played by Al Di Meola)
    • Release 5: Malicorne (Le Mariage anglais) (played by Gabriel Yacoub, Laurent Vercambre)
    • Release 6: Blue Light 'Til Dawn on track 10, played by Charlie Burnham
  • Comments:
    • We may have to rearrange the position of the mandolin and mandola to go with this. -- HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 20:36, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

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

Medicine drum

• • AKA:
  • Links: [7]
  • Description: a sacred Native American drum used in healing rituals
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Medicine Compilation - From the Quiet Lodge Track 1 as other drums (played by Haruomi Hosono)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Memorymoog

• • AKA: Moog Memorymoog
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a variation on the Moog synthesizer
  • Instrument Family: Electronic Instruments/.../Moog
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: JET CD as Moog (played by Yuta Saito)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Mexican Harp / Arpa de Mariachi

• • AKA:
  • Links: 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)

Mizmar

• • AKA:
  • Description: Mizmar
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Προάγγελος on track 2
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

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

Mouth Block

• • AKA:
  • Description: some kind of dental device?
  • Instrument Family: Percussion?
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Menina Played by Jota Moraes on track 2, credited as wood block
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • TBH I have no idea what this is. Google results only point to a kind of protective dental device. It's possible that's what this is, but I highly doubt it. -- HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 00:47, 26 March 2013 (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: Intensive Care Track 11 as Electronic Sequencers
    • Release 5: DESTINATION All tracks (two separate artist credits) as Electronic Instruments
  • Comments: A drum machine is a type of sequencer, so if this is added it should be the parent of Drum Machine.

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
            • I've added Ney (the middle-eastern, not Romanian flute) too. If someone can prove there's a percussion instrument too, please do.--Reosarevok (talk) 15:09, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Ngoma drums

• • AKA: Ng'oma, ingoma
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: traditional drums played by Bantu-speaking peoples of East Africa
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Devil's Got Your Tongue Played by Babatunde Olatunji
    • 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
    • Release 2: Segu Blue
    • Release 3: I Speak Fula
    • Release 4: Songhai 2
    • Release 5: Kongo Magni
    • Release 6: Silvatica on track 5 (currently credited as generic performance; liner notes show "Kala n'goni")
  • 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.
    • Should be broken down into: N'goni, Kamale N'goni and Donso N'goni.

Nintendo

• • AKA: Famicom, Nintendo Entertainment System, NES
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: the sound chip from the Nintendo Entertainment System video game console
  • Instrument Family: Electronic Instruments
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Power Supply
    • Release 2: Dawn Metropolis
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • This might need to be split into two separate instruments, the NES and the Famicom (ファミコン, short for Family Computer/ファミリーコンピュータ). If memory serves, the Famicom was capable of producing more sounds than the NES was. --HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 06:30, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
      • Are you sure? NES is just the foreign name for FAMICOM. Jesus2099 (talk) 22:05, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
        • Extremely. In case you haven't noticed, the two consoles were structurally completely different in many ways (most of which are irrelevant right now), but the Famicom had two pins on its edge connector that allowed game cartridges to expand the onboard sound capabilities of the console. One way this was utilized was through a built-in microphone in the second controller that would play back players' voices through the connected TV set. --HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 00:01, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

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
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Nyabinghi Drums (Funde, Thunder, Repeater/Keteh)

• • AKA: Rastafarian/jamaican drums
  • Wikipedia
  • Links: 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
    • Release 2: Music Played by Omar (Repeater drum on track 4)
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Nyatiti

• • Wikipedia
  • Description: a five to eight-stringed plucked lyre from Kenya.
  • Instrument Family: String instruments
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Volume 1: Sound Magic on track 8
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

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:

Octave mandolin

• • Description: Octave mandolin
  • Instrument Family: Mandolin
  • Appears On:
    • Artist 1: Gjangsta
    • Release 2: Reel Irish
    • Release 3: The Slip Away Sessions
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Ondioline

• • AKA:'
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: an early electronic keyboard instrument, a predecessor of the synthesizer
  • Instrument Family: Electronic Instruments
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Seasoned Eyes Were Beaming Played by Zac Rae on track 4
    • 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: Seasoned Eyes Were Beaming Played by Zac Rae on tracks 4 and 8
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

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: Seasoned Eyes Were Beaming Played by Zac Rae on track 2 and Dustin O'Halloran on track 5
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Oxygen harp

• • AKA:
  • Description: some type of harp-like instrument?
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Medicine Compilation - From the Quiet Lodge Track 1 as harp (played by Kay Nakayama)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • Another instrument I can't find any info on. -- HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 21:17, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

Paddle Tubulum

• • AKA: Bass tubulum
  • Description: a bass tubulum
  • Instrument Family: Tuned percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The Complex
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Pan drums

• • AKA:
  • Description: a set of traditional Asian drums?
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Medicine Compilation - From the Quiet Lodge Tracks 4 and 7 as steelpan (played by Chito Kawachi and Yujin Harada)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • There might be another name for this instrument. It sounds like a specialized drum kit with traditional drums. Google turned up nothing relevant (all the links pointed to the steelpan). -- HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 03:33, 3 April 2013 (UTC)

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: Os Afro-Sambas de Baden e Vinicius
    • Release 3: Silvatica on track 3 (currently entered as "frame drum")
    • Release 4: Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers (played by John Doyle)
    • Release 5: Tristeza on Guitar (played by Amauri Coelho)
    • Release 6: Menina Played by Beto Cazes on track 5 (credited as tambourine); played my Marçal on track 12 (credited as frame drum)
    • Release 7: Chico Buarque Played by Elias Ferreira on tracks 5 & 11 (credited as frame drum)
  • 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:
  • Links: 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:

Piano Smasher

• • AKA:
  • Description: the strings out of a baby grand piano, played by striking with a large mallet
  • Instrument Family: Struck String Instruments
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The Complex
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Pipe and Tabor

• • Wikipedia
  • Description: a somewhat specialized pipe and tambourine-esque pair, played in combination.
  • Instrument Family: Winds, percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Morris On on track 7
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • Could possibly be implemented as separate instruments

Player Piano

• • 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: Hawaii: Part II
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Pocket Trumpet

• • 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: Kitchen pots and pans played as percussion instruments (usually as if they were drums in a drum set)
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: A Portrait (disc 1) (tracks 5-8)
    • Release 2: Not Too Late on track 2
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Prepared Guitar

• • AKA: Tabletop Guitar
  • Wikipedia
  • 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)
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: 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.
    • Tagged with instrument-prepared guitar

PVC Instrument

• • AKA:
  • Description: a tuned percussion instrument made from PVC pipe
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The Complex
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Ramana

• • AKA:
  • Links: 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:

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 Played 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.

Reco-reco

• • AKA:
  • Links: Reco-reco
  • Description: a specific type of Brazilian Güiro
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Menina Played by Beto Cazes on track 5, credited as güiro
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • 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

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:

Repinique

• • AKA: Repique
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a 2-headed Brazilian drum
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The Big Gundown Track 1 as Other Percussion
    • Release 2: Menina Played by Armando Marçal on track 1, credited as snare drum
    • Release 3: Chico Buarque Played by Doutor on track 1, credited as tom-tom
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Requinto Jarocho

• • AKA:
  • Links: 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:

Säckpipa

• • AKA: Swedish bagpipes
  • Wikipedia
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: bagpipes
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: On the Way to Bethlehem (Music of the Medieval Pilgrim)
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Sakara Drum

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: Clay drum from Nigeria
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Odu played by Nojeem Lasisi
    • Release 2: Devil's Got Your Tongue played by Babatunde Olatunji
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Sansula

• • AKA:
  • Links: 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:

C melody saxophone

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: A saxophone pitched in the key of C, one whole step above the tenor saxophone.
  • Instrument Family: Wind instruments / ... / Saxophones
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Off the Record: The Complete 1923 Jazz Band Recordings
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Siren whistle

• • AKA:
  • Video: [8]
  • Description: a plastic or metal whistle designed to sound like an emergency siren
  • Instrument Family: Winds/Other instruments
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Straight Outta Lynwood Played by Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz on tracks 2 and 5, credited as kazoo
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Sleigh bells

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a set of large jingle bells on a stick or strap
  • Instrument Family: Tuned percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Straight Outta Lynwood Played by Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz on track 2, credited as handbells
    • Release 2:
    • Release 3:
    • Release 4:
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:
    • I'm debating whether to add this as one instrument or two. Wikipedia lists jingle bells and sleigh bells as the same, but traditionally jingle bells are small while sleigh bells are larger and resonate at a lower pitch. Thoughts? -- HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 03:49, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

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:

Slideridoo

• • AKA: Slide-Didgeridoo, Didjeribone
  • Description: The slideridoo is a multi-tone didgeridoo, invented by Charlie McMahon.
  • Instrument Family: Didgeridoo
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Wolf Love
    • Release 2: Alive
    • Release 3: Crone of War
    • Release 4: World of Omnia
    • Release 5:
  • Comments:

Solina

• • AKA: Solina String Ensemble, ARP String Ensemble
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: a divide-down orchestral synthesizer
  • Instrument Family: Electronic Instruments/.../Synthesizer
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: JET CD as electronic instruments
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  • 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:
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    • 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:
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  • 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:
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Stomp box

• • AKA: PorchBoard Bass
  • Description: a small wooden box placed under the foot, which is tapped or stamped on rhythmically to produce a sound similar to that of a bass drum
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Trent Severn
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  • Comments: used in commonly used in folk and blues

Sub Octivider

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

Subahar

• • AKA: Surbahar, Bass sitar
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: The subahar, sometimes known as bass sitar, is a plucked string instrument used in the Hindustani classical music of North India. It is closely related to sitar, but it has a lower tone.
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Anthology of World Music: North Indian Classical Music (disc 3)
    • Release 2:
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Sursingar

• • AKA: sursringar, surshringar, surashringar
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: The sursingar is a musical instrument from India. It is a lute-derived sarod, except it is larger in size and produces a deeper sound. It precedes the sarod chronologically.
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Anthology of World Music: North Indian Classical Music (disc 3)
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  • Comments:

SynthAxe

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

Tack piano

• • AKA: jangle piano, junk piano, honky-tonk piano
  • 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: Där jag är e’re alltid bäst on track 12, entered as piano
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  • Comments:
    • See Prepared Piano

Tamborim

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: A small, round Brazilian frame drum of Portuguese and African origin. The frame is 6" in diameter and may be made of metal, plastic or wood. The head is typically made of nylon and is normally very tightly tuned in order to ensure a high, sharp sound and a minimum of sustain. The drum is devoid of snares or jingles
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Menina Played by Armando Marçal and Marçal on tracks 1,7 and 12 (credited as tambourine)
    • Release 2:
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer
      • What is this? -- FrederikSOlesen 10:12, 09 March 2008 (UTC)
        • As I said, this is simply using their list to compare against, but I would imagine is this instrument. That would seem to fit with Discogs' description: "A small, round Brazilian frame drum of Portuguese and African origin. The frame is 6" in diameter and may be made of metal, plastic or wood. The head is typically made of nylon and is normally very tightly tuned in order to ensure a high, sharp sound and a minimum of sustain. The drum is devoid of snares or jingles." -- BrianSchweitzer 11:46, 09 March 2008 (UTC)

Tannerin

• • AKA: Electro-Theremin
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: an early synthesizer-like device that sounds like a theremin
  • Instrument Family: Electronic Instruments
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Straight Outta Lynwood Track 2, credited as theremin
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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: Za7ie 14/49 on track 14, performed by Matthieu Rabaté
    • Release 2: Sunny Spells and Scattered Showers (played by John Doyle)
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Tenor banjo

• • AKA:
  • Description: a four-string banjo with tenor tuning, usually C G D A
  • Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Strings/.../Banjo
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: 12 Golden Country Greats as banjo (played by Charlie McCoy)
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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
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Tenor violin

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: A string instrument with a body size and range between the viola and the cello
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Let Them Talk played by Craig Eastman (currently only credited as playing the violin)
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  • Comments:

Timber flute

• • AKA:
  • Links: image search
  • Description: Maybe a kind of celtic flute
  • Instrument Family: Flute
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Celtic Moon (Cormac Breatnach)
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Time Machine

• • AKA: Folktek Time Machine
  • Description: A type of custom sequencer / samplable synthesiser made by Folktek
  • Instrument Family: Electronic Instruments
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Freak Controller
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Tinya

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: The Tinya is a percussion instrument, a small handmade drum of leather which is used in the traditional music of the Andean region, particularly Peru.
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Creation's Journey: Native American Music
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  • Comments: Also listed as snare drum in Release 1

Tovshuur

• • AKA: Tobshuur, Topshuur, トヴショール Wikipedia
  • 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: My People (track 6, other string instruments)
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Tromboon

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

• • AKA:
  • Description: a tuned percussion instrument invented by Blue Man Group; a variation on their earlier PVC Instrument
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: The Complex Played by Larry Heinemann and the Blue Man Group
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Vichitra veena

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: The vichitra veena a plucked string instrument used in Hindustani music. It is similar to the Carnatic gottuvadhyam (chitra vina). It has no frets and is played with a slide.
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Anthology of World Music: North Indian Classical Music (disc 3)
    • Release 2: Inde du Nord: L'art de la vichitra vîna
    • Release 3:
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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 on track 9
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Viola da spalla

• • AKA: Baroque violoncello
  • Description: a Baroque string instrument sized and tuned between the viola and the cello
  • Links: [9]
  • Instrument Family: Strings/Bowed string instruments
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Menina Played by Antonela Pareschi on tracks 3 and 8, credited as violone
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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)
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Viololyra

• • AKA: Βιολολύρα
  • Description: A mix of the Cretan lyra and violin
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: Με κόντρα τον καιρό
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  • 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

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: Let Them Talk as steel guitar (played by Greg Leisz)
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  • Comments:
    • See 8653789 -- TimVanHolder 20:00, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Wooden Bowl

• • AKA:
  • Description:
  • Instrument Family: Percussion
  • Appears On:
    • Release 1: New York Counterpoint
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  • 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
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  • 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)

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)

Instruments with no releases listed

Amiga

• • AKA:
  • Description: the sound chip out of an Amiga personal computer
  • Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Electronic Instruments
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Arco Bass

• • AKA: Single bass, Arco acoustic bass guitar
  • Description: an acoustic bass guitar built to look and sound like an upright bass
  • Links: [10]
  • Instrument Family: Strings
  • Appears On:
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Atari 2600

• • AKA:
  • Description: the sound chip out of the video game console by the same name
  • Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Electronic Instruments
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Bellowphone

• • AKA: The Majestic Bellowphone
  • Description: a bizarre bellows-driven horn instrument developed and played by Leonard Solomon
  • Links: [11]
  • Instrument Family: Winds
  • Appears On:
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Blaster Beam

• • AKA:
  • Description: a long metal beam with strings and movable electric guitar pickups
  • Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Strings
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Byzaanchi

• • AKA:
  • Description: a Tuvan bowed string instrument with a hollow cylindrical body
  • Images: [12]
  • Instrument Family: Strings
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Caixa

• • AKA:
  • Links: 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

Chanzy

• • AKA:
  • Description: a Tuvan three-stringed lute
  • Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Strings
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Ching

• • AKA:
  • Wikipedia
  • Description: Thai/Cambodian finger cymbals
  • 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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    • 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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  • Comments:
    • 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)

Ektara

• • AKA: iktar, ektar, yaktaro gopichand
  • Description: an Indian one-string plucked instrument
  • Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Strings
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Flugabone

• • AKA:
  • Description: a larger variant of the flugelhorn, tuned a full octave lower
  • Links: [13]
  • Instrument Family: Winds
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Homus

• • AKA:
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  • Instrument Family: Other
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer
      • Isn't this just another name for a Jew's harp? -- HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 02:30, 6 February 2013 (UTC)

Igil

• • AKA: Игил
  • Description: a two-stringed bowed instrument from the Tuva region
  • Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Strings/Bowed string instruments
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Kabosy

• • AKA:
  • Description: a square guitar-like instrument from Madagascar
  • Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Strings
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Khene

• • AKA: khaen, kaen, khen, ແຄນ, แคน
  • Description: Mouth organ from Laos and north-east Thailand. Consists of bamboo pipes connected to a small, hollowed-out hardwood wind-chest.
  • Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Winds
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer
    • I've re-added this because I'm not entirely convinced it's the same as the existing khèn Mèo. Pages for khèn Mèo, kềnh H'Mông, qeej (Vietnam): wikipedia:vi:Kềnh_H'Mông, [14], [15], [16], [17]. Pages for khene, khaen (Laos, Thailand): wikipedia:Khene, [18], [19], [20]. The former are all very similar, as are the latter, but there are a number of differences between the two which makes me wonder if they're really the *same* instrument and not just closely related instruments. --Nikki (talk) 00:11, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

Mandoguitar

• • AKA: Octave Twelve, Vox MandoGuitar
  • Description: a miniature 12-string electric guitar designed to sound like a mandolin yet feel and play like a guitar
  • Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Strings
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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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Pedalboard

• • AKA:
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  • Instrument Family: Other
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    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer
      • This might need to be listed under "Effects unit." -- HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 02:33, 6 February 2013 (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

Pixiphone

• • AKA:
  • Description: a toy glockenspiel manufactured in England in the 1950s and 1960s
  • Links: Wikipedia and [21]
  • Instrument Family: Tuned percussion
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer
      • This is NOT a wind instrument! See the link above. -- HibiscusKazeneko (talk) 07:53, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

Regal

• • AKA:
  • Description: an early portable reed organ popular during the Renaissance
  • Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Reed organ
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer

Rozhok

• • AKA: Vladimirsky rozhok
  • Description: an ancient Russian wooden trumpet
  • Wikipedia
  • Instrument Family: Winds
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  • Comments:
    • A Discogs instrument AR we don't yet list. -- BrianSchweitzer