List of musical instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number: 322.211

This is a list of instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number, covering those instruments that are classified under 322.211 under that system. These instruments are diatonic frame harps.

3: Instruments in which sound is produced by one or more vibrating strings (chordophones, string instruments).
32: Instruments in which the resonator and string bearer are physically united and can not be separated without destroying the instrument
322: Instrument whose strings are at right angles to the sound table, such that a line between the lower tips of the strings would point at the neck (harps)
322.2: Instrument has a pillar (frame harps)
322.21: Instrument has no tuning action
322.211: Instrument is diatonic

These instruments may be classified with a suffix, based on how the strings are caused to vibrate.

List

Instrument Tradition Hornbostel–Sachs classification Description
harp, Paraguayan[1][2][3]
Paraguay 322.211 Diatonic harp with 32, 36, 38 or 40 strings, made from tropical wood and with songs in the Guarani language, with an exaggerated neck-arch, played with the fingernail
harp, Venezuelan[4]
Venezuela 322.211 Diatonic harp, with an exaggerated neck arch, similar to the Paraguayan harp

References

Notes

  1. "The Harp: A Latin American Reinvention". BBC. July 6, 2001. Retrieved December 17, 2007.
  2. Schechter, John M.; Daniel E. Sheehy; Ronald R. Smith (Spring–Summer 1985). "The New Grove: Latin America". Ethnomusicology. Society for Ethnomusicology. 29 (2): 317330. doi:10.2307/852145. JSTOR 852145.
  3. "Paraguayan Harp". Dolmetsch Online. Retrieved December 21, 2007.
  4. Nidel, Richard (2005). World Music: The Basics. Routledge. p. 349. ISBN 0-415-96800-3. The cuatro rivals the harp as the national instrument
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