Explore: Primitive Musical Instruments

Revenge of the Cybermen (1975). He was noted for his use of primitive musical instruments, using crumhorns to depict the Silurians in Doctor Who and the

typically in the context of vegetation, natural phenomena or primitive musical instruments. Similarly, words attributed to primarily West African languages

clapping—to using objects to create music from sounds, musical instruments were born. Primitive instruments were probably designed to emulate natural sounds

In musical instrument classification, string instruments, or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer

African-American Primitive Baptists may not share the general Primitive Baptist opposition to musical instruments, however. Primitive Baptists reject the

In organology, the study of musical instruments, many methods of classifying instruments exist. Most methods are specific to a particular cultural group

synthetics. Musical instruments are classified according to the type and number of reeds. The earliest types of single-reed instruments used idioglottal

heptatonic in the case of many African and Asian instruments, diatonic in many western children's instruments, or chromatic for orchestral use. The term xylophone

harp in the musical hierarchy. Schlesinger in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica mentioned the crwth in an article about transition of instruments from the

strings than its Persian counterpart, which generally has 72 strings. Musical instruments very similar to the santoor are traditionally used all over the world