Polskie Instrumenty Lodowe
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    • Classes description
    • Idiophones
    • Membranophones
    • Chordophones
    • Aerophones
  • Museums
    • Museum of Folk Musical Instruments in Szydłowiec
    • Jadwiga and Marian Sobieski Collection
    • National Museum in Poznań
    • The State Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw
    • The Municipal Museum of Żywiec – The Old Castle
    • Franciszek Kotula Ethnographic Museum in Rzeszów
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    • Carpathian area
  • Classification

Classes description

Idiophones

Musical instruments that make sound by way of vibrations of the whole instrument itself, owing to its solidity and elasticity, without the use of membranes or strings. See Classification.

Membranophones

Instruments that produce sound by way of vibrations of tightly stretched membranes. See Classification.

Chordophones

Instruments that create sound by way of vibrations of one or more strings stretched between two fixed points. See Classification.

Aerophones

Musical instruments that produce sound primarily thanks to vibrations of a body of air. In this group also belong reed instruments whose reeds are the primary vibrator as sound is produced when air causes the reed to vibrate. See Classification.
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