This is a two-headed drum, slightly wider than it is tall. The body is made from a cylinder of sheet metal painted to look like wood. There is a finger-sized hole in the side. Each head is held taught by a wooden strip nailed to itself in one...
This is a two-head cylindrical membranophone with a shell hand-hewn from a single piece of wood. The rims are slightly uneven. The two heads are lapped under hoops (of undetermined material) and sewn to them with cotton twine, leaving loops at...
This is a two-headed cylindrical drum, probably from Cochiti Pueblo, NM. The body is hewn from a single piece of lightweight and light colored wood, probably pine. The surface has been sanded smooth. The heads are cowhide. They are stretched...
This trumpet is a simple bamboo tube 98 cm long and 3 cm in diameter. The slightly larger proximal end is rounded off to form the mouthpiece. Three fingerholes are grouped near the center of the pipe and a fourth lies farther down. The player...
This is a one-string tension-controlled plucked chordophone. It consists of a goblet-shaped gourd with both ends cut off, the larger covered with a thin membrane. The membrane is glued on and the gourd is finished in red lacquer. A length of gut...
This is a tuned frame rattle made of bamboo and rattan. It is one instrument from a set of four or five, each providing one note of the scale. The base of the frame is made of a bamboo tube about 4 cm (1.5 in.) in diameter. Three bamboo sticks...
This double-pipe single-reed instrument is typically referred to as a double clarinet, but this is misleading, since acoustically the instrument behaves more like a saxophone, to be explained below. It consists of two cane pipes bound together...
This is a handle gourd with a net of beads surrounding the bulb end. The net is made of limp blue polyester string. It is loose-fitting but permanently attached. The ?beads? are actually small spherical grey seeds strung between the knots of the...
This rattle has its noise-making apparatus on the outside. The body is a handle gourd, dried and emptied of its seeds through a hole in the handle. Encircling the globe portion is a net of beads made from large grooved seeds cut into segments. ...
This is a very large 10-string lyre with a frame of dark-stained and decoratively carved wood and a box-shaped body covered with a very dark animal hide. The body is a three-dimensional trapezoid, square at the front, with all sides tapering to...
This is a long-necked fretted lute with a tear-drop shaped body and seven strings, arranged in two double courses and one triple course. The lowest course has one thin wire string paired with a wound string sounding the octave below. The middle...
This small idioglot single reed for a bagpipe drone is made of a short length of naturally hollow cane. It is open on one end and closed on the other with a plug of red shellac. A thin black string is wrapped around the open end. A long tongue...
This is a long, thin pipe of dark wood and black plastic with a subtly conical shape. At the mouthpiece the diameter is 10 mm, and at the base it is 20 mm. Also at the base a wooden disk with a cream-colored plastic rim is attached. The...
This is a fixed-key or frame xylophone with a gourd resonator underneath each key. The frame is an open box in a three-dimensional trapezoid shape, larger in both height and width at one end, tapering to the other, reflecting the graded sizes of...
This is a fixed-key or frame xylophone with a gourd resonator underneath each key. The frame is an open box in a three-dimensional trapezoid shape, larger in both height and width at one end, tapering to the other, reflecting the graded sizes of...
This is a fixed-key or frame xylophone with a gourd resonator underneath each key. The frame is an open box in a three-dimensional trapezoid shape, larger in both height and width at one end, tapering to the other, reflecting the graded sizes of...
The balalaika, Russia's distinctive triangular-bodied lute, has three steel strings and a fretted fingerboard. The strings are tuned by means of ""machine screws,"" or geared pegs, like those on a guitar, and secured to plastic pegs at the base of...
This is a fixed-key or frame xylophone with a gourd resonator underneath each key. The frame is an open box in a three-dimensional trapezoid shape, larger in both height and width at one end, tapering to the other, reflecting the graded sizes of...
This is a bamboo transverse flute of 56 cm with a relatively large bore. The proximal end is closed by a natural node. The embouchure hole and six finger holes are burned in with a hot poker. The finger holes are large, and some are slightly...
This is a very large bore duct flute made of dark brown Indonesian bamboo. It was made by Guillermo Martinez, who described it as a variant of the Pre-Colombian Central American clay ocarinas. The top of the bamboo cylinder is closed by a natural...
