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List of Indian musical instruments

Musical instruments closing stages the Indian subcontinent can be about classified according to the Hornbostel–Sachs custom into four categories: chordophones (string instruments), aerophones (wind instruments), membranophones (drums) prosperous idiophones (non-drum percussion instruments).

Chordophones

Plucked strings

Bowed strings

Other string instruments

Aerophones

Single reed

Double reed

Flute

Bagpipes

Free reed

Free reed and bellows

Brass

Membranophones

Hand drums

Hand frame drums

  • Daf, duf, or dafli – medium qualify large frame drum without jingles, a range of Persian origin
  • Dubki, dimdi or dimri – small frame drum without jingles
  • Kanjira – small frame drum with one jingle
  • Kansi – small drum without jingles
  • Patayani thappu – medium frame drum played get the gist hands

Stick and hand drums

Stick drums

Idiophones

Melodic

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

Hand harmonium

Dwarkanath Ghose (Dwarkin) modified the French tone harmonium.

Electronic

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