Ofanda, Jezreel  Wood block is a small slit drum made from a

10-Tranquility single piece of wood and used as a percussion

instrument.
Idiophone - an instrument the whole of which vibrates
to produce a sound when struck, shaken, or scraped,
such as a bell, gong, or rattle.

Examples of idiophones
 Xylophone is a musical instrument in the
percussion family that consists of wooden bars
struck by mallets.

 Bell is a directly struck idiophone percussion

instrument. Most bells have the shape of a
hollow cup that when struck vibrates in a single
strong strike tone, with its sides forming an
efficient resonator.

 Rattle a type of percussion instrument which

produces a sound when shaken. Rattles are
described in the Hornbostel–Sachs system as
Shaken Idiophones

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.

Examples of Membranophone
 Djembe is a rope-tuned skin-covered goblet
 Jew's harp is a lamellophone instrument, which
is in the category of plucked idiophones. drum played with bare hands, originally from
West Africa.
 Dhol can refer to any one of a number of similar
types of double-headed drum widely used, with
regional variations, throughout the Indian
subcontinent.
 Khol also known as a mrdanga in the Odia
language or mridôngo is a terracotta two-sided
drum used in northern and eastern India for
accompaniment with devotional music.
 harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a
 conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall,
narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba.
 Bongos are an Afro-Cuban percussion
instrument consisting of a pair of small open
bottomed drums of different sizes.
Chordophone - is a musical instrument that
makes sound by way of a vibrating string or
strings stretched between two points. It is one
of the four main divisions of instruments in the
original Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical
instrument classification.
Examples of Chordophone
number of individual strings running at an angle
to its soundboard.
 lute is any plucked string instrument with a  lyre is a string instrument known for its use in
neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow Greek classical antiquity and later periods.
cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in
the body.

Aerophone - is any musical instrument that

produces sound primarily by causing a body of
 musical bow (bowstring or string bow) is a
air to vibrate, without the use of strings or
simple string musical instrument part of a
membranes, and without the vibration of the
number of South African cultures, also found in
instrument itself adding considerably to the
other places in the world through the result of
sound.
slave trade.
Examples of Aerophone
 trumpet is a blown musical instrument
commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.

 harmonica, also known as a French harp or

mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument
 Zither, any stringed musical instrument whose
used worldwide in many musical genres,
strings are the same length as its soundboard.
notably in blues, American folk music, classical
music, jazz, country, and rock and roll.
 Bagpipes are a wind instrument using enclosed Lamellophone - from the Latin root lingua
reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the meaning "tongue", i.e., a long thin plate that is
form of a bag. fixed only at one end) is any of a family of
musical instruments.

Examples of lamellophone
 mbira is an African musical instrument
consisting of a wooden board (often fitted with
a resonator) with attached staggered metal
tines, played by holding the instrument in the
hands and plucking the tines with the thumbs.

 piccolo is a half-size flute, and a member of the

woodwind family of musical instruments.

 Kouxian is a general Chinese term for any

variety of jaw harp.

 tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched musical

instrument in the brass family.

 agidigbo is a large traditional plucked

lamellophone used by the Yoruba people of
Nigeria.
 Đàn môi is somewhat similar to the jaw harp
but there are some differences. Most Đàn môi
are crafted out of a single piece of brass and
attached with a string to a decorated bamboo
case.
 Oopoochawa also known as quisanche is a type
of mbira or lamellaphone from South America,
popular in the areas of Montevideo, Uruguay
and La Plata, Argentina.