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Alphabetic Listing of Musical Instruments

Angklung - Indonesian bamboo rattle
Bagpipe chanter - Scotland
Balalaika (lute) - Russia
Bandura (zither) - Ukraine
Berimbau - Brazilian musical bow
Binadao - Chinese multiple reed pipe
Bodhran ( frame drum) - Ireland
Bonang (gong set) - Java
Charango (mandilin) - Peru
Chengcheng (cymbals) - Bali
Claves - Latin clappers
Cowbells - Swiss bells
Cuica - Brazilian friction drum
Daff (tambourine) - Central Asia
Dan Bau - Vietnamese monochord
Dan tranh (long zither) - Vietnam
Di (flute) - China
Djembe - West African drum
Dombek (goblet drums) - Egypt
Dundun - African drum
Dung cheng (long trumpet) - Tibet
Dvojnice - Balkan double flute
Erhu (fiddle) - China
Ewe - West African drum set
Gaohu (fiddle) - China
Gender (metallophone) - Java
Gongs (hanging gongs) - Java
Gong wong ya (gong chime) - Thailand
Guiro - Latin scrapper
Gyil (xylophone) - W. Africa

Hne (oboe) - Burma
Horn - Europe
Hurdy Gurdy (string) - Europe
Kalinga - Philippino bamboo flutes
Kendang (drum) - Java
Kenong (kettle gong set) - Java
Ketuk (kettle gongs) - Java
Khaen (mouth organ) - Thailand
Kulintang - Philippino gong ensemble
Limberjack - Appalacian toy
Liuyeqin (willow leaf lute) - China
Luogu - Chinese lion dance instruments
Manjira (cymbals) - Tibet, India
Maracas - Latin shakers
Mbira (thumb piano) - Africa
Naw (mouth organ) - Thailand
Ney - Mid-Eastern cane flute
Nose flute - Oceania
Ocarina (vessel flute) - South America
O-zi (drums) - Burma
Paixiao (panpipes)- China
Panpipes - Philippines
Pi - Thai oboe
Pinai (quadruple-reed oboe) - Thailand
Pipa (pear lute) - China
Pungi (snake charmer's pipe) _ India
Qin - Chinese long zither
Renat ek (xylophone) - Thailand
Riq (tambourin) - Egypt
Rkang gling (short trumpet) - Tibet

Sanxian (3-string banjo) - China
Sarod (lute) - N. India
Saron (metallophone) - Java
Saung - Burmese harp
Saw Duan - Thai fiddle
Shahnai (oboe) - North India
Sheng (mouth organ) - China
Shofar - Jewish trumpet
Siku (panpipes) - Andes
Sitar (lute) - India
Slit drum - Idiophone
Sona (oboe) - China
Spoons - Appalacian clappers
Steelpan (idiophone) - Trinidad
Suling - Balinese flute
Suling - Javanese flute
Surna (oboe) - Turkey
Sweet potato (vessel flute) - N America
Tabla (drums) - N. India
Tambourin - Frame drum
Tampura (lute) - India
Tawa-Tawa gong - Bali, Indonesia
Thon-rammani - Thai goblet drum
Tin whistle - Ireland
Vietnamese percussion
Washboard - Appalacian scrapper
Yangqin (dulcimer) - China
Yueqin (moon lute) - China
Zhong ruan (medium lute) - China
Zummara - Mid-Eastern double clarinet