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This is a list of instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number, covering those instruments that are classified under 321.312 under that system. These instruments may be known as spike box lutes or spike guitars.

  • 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
      • 321: Instruments in which the strings run in a plane parallel to the sound table
        • 321.3: Instruments in which the string bearer is a plain handle (handle lutes)
          • 321.31: Instruments in which the handle passes diametrically through the resonator (spike lutes)
            • 321.312: Instruments in which the resonator is built up from wood (spike box lutes, spike guitars)

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

  • 4: Hammers or beaters
  • 5: Bare hands and fingers
  • 6: Plectrum
  • 7: Bowing
    • 71: Using a bow
    • 72: Using a wheel
    • 73: Using a ribbon
  • 8: Keyboard
  • 9: Using a mechanical drive


Instrument Tradition Description Image
gusle[1] [2] [3]
Serbia, Montenegro and elsewhere in the former Yugoslavia Stringed instrument, round, typically with one string bound at the top of the neck with a tuning peg
Serbian gusle 
Hornbostel-Sachs: 321.312
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kemenche[4] [5]
The Black Sea area Spike lute
Hornbostel-Sachs: 321.312
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rubab[6] [7]
rabab
Afghanistan and neighboring areas Short-necked three-stringed lute with sympathetic and drone strings, fretted and plucked with a plectrum, with a double-chambered body, the lower part of which is covered in skin, and with three main strings
Hornbostel-Sachs: 321.312-6
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[edit] References

  1. ^ 'Spinning Out of Control': Rhetoric and Violent Conflict (pdf) 4 (June 1, 2006). Retrieved on December 21, 2007.
  2. ^ Montenegrin Music. Visit Montenegro. Retrieved on December 21, 2007.
  3. ^ Lord, Albert B. (1936). "Homer and Huso I: The Singer's Rests in Greek and Southslavic Heroic Song". Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 67: 106-113. doi:10.2307/283230. 
  4. ^ Doubleday, Veronica (2000). "Afghanistan: Red Light at the Crossroads", in Broughton, Simon and Mark Ellingham with James McConnachie and Orla Duane (Eds.): World Music: The Rough Guide. Rough Guides, 3-7. ISBN 1858286360. “Afghans have a special feeling for the rubab, describing it as the 'lion' of instruments and their 'national instrument'.” 
  5. ^ ARC music; Peter McClelland. Glossary of Folk Instruments. Hobgoblin Music. Retrieved on December 17, 2007.
  6. ^ Doubleday, Veronica (2000). "Afghanistan: Red Light at the Crossroads", in Broughton, Simon and Mark Ellingham with James McConnachie and Orla Duane (Eds.): World Music: The Rough Guide. Rough Guides, 3-7. ISBN 1858286360. “Afghans have a special feeling for the rubab, describing it as the 'lion' of instruments and their 'national instrument'.” 
  7. ^ ARC music; Peter McClelland. Glossary of Folk Instruments. Hobgoblin Music. Retrieved on December 17, 2007.