Talk:Musical instrument classification

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Where does the harp fit? I think it's somewhere in the keyboards/string-percussion, but I don't know enough to add it into the article. thanks! -- Dreamyshade

It depends which classification system you mean. Normally it would just be described as a "string instrument", but the Hornbostel-Sachs system, for instance, calls it a chordophone and (if I remember correctly) puts it alongside various African instruments such as the kora and other instruments where the strings run perpendicular (rather than paralell) to the bridge. I don't think we should talk about individual instruments in this article anyway, which is intended to be more an examination of the various classification systems that have been tried. --Camembert

[edit] Musical instrument classification on Wikipedia

I feel that it would be very helpful to create, or use, a system of classification to help group instrument articles together. Being a novice I don't know a whole lot about it, but I think we wikipedians should come up with an all inclusive system to put to use so we can properly group articles and make them easily accessible to the public.Will 19:58, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

This is what I propose(Categories at left, subcategories indented): Wind

  Woodwinds
  Brass

String

  Plucked
  Bow
  Keyboard

Percussive

  Metal
  Wooden
  Stone

Idiophone

  Struck
  Plucked
  Blown
  Friction