Learning Task 1 Describe the nature and qualities of the following categories/classification or groups of African musical instruments: A. Idiophone - B. Chordophone - C. Lamellaphone D. Membranophone E. Aerophone
are instruments that create sound through vibrating themselves. They differ from chordophones and membranophones because the vibrating is not the result of strings or membranes. Under the Hornbostel-Sachs classifcation system, idiophones are further divided into struck idiophones and plucked idiophones.
Chordophones
are instruments that produce sound by vibrating strings. ... Most western chordophones, excluding the piano and harpsichord, fall into the composite chordophone category. Composite chordophones can be broken down into lute type and harp type instruments.
lamellaphone
, any musical instrument consisting of a set of tuned metal or bamboo tongues (lamellae) of varying length attached at one end to a soundboard that often has a box or calabash resonator. ... Lamellaphones are typically classified as plucked idiophones—instruments whose sounding parts are resonant solids.
membranophone
is any musical instrument which produces sound primarily by way of a vibrating stretched membrane. It is one of the four main divisions of instruments in the original Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification.
aerophone
is a musical instrument that produces sound primarily by causing a body of air to vibrate, without the use of strings or membranes, and without the vibration of the instrument itself adding considerably to the sound.
