Question

In the world around you, if you wanted to create some instruments from items you have around the house or in your neighborhood, how would you make them? Describe a homemade instrument you could make in each of the Sachs-Hornbostel instrument categories we discussed in Lesson One. The classifications are based only on how the sound is produced; what vibrates in the instrument. Use your imagination, and be as specific as you can in describing the materials you would use, how it would be made, how it would be played, and how it would sound (minimum word count: 200; please see rubric).

Answer 1

Answer: There are 5 categories/classifications of musical instruments according to Sachs Horn Bostel.

These include the following:

Electrophones, membranophones, idiphones, chordophones and electrophones.

Examples of each the above classifications are:

Chordophones: guitar and harp

Aerophones: Saxophone, flute and trumpet.

Membranophones: include vibration instruments like violin, guitar can as well fall in this category.

Electrophones: these include electronic organ

Idiphones: these may include bells, cymbals and xylophones.

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