Kinds of Instruments

Idiophone

An idiophone is any musical instrument that creates sound primarily by the

instrument as a whole vibrating—without the use of strings or membranes.
Class of musical instruments in which a resonant solid material—such as
wood, metal, or stone
Idiophone
 Aerophone

An aerophone (/ˈɛəroʊfoʊn/) is any musical instrument that produces sound

primarily by causing a body of air to vibrate,[1] without the use of strings or
membranes, and without the vibration of the instrument itself adding
considerably to the sound.
 Membranophone

Membranophone, any of a class of musical instruments in which a

stretched membrane vibrates to produce sound. Besides drums, the
basic types include the mirliton, or kazoo, and the friction
drum(sounded by friction produced by drawing a stick back and forth
through a hole in the membrane).
 Chordophone

A chordophone is a musical instrument that makes sound by way of a

vibrating string or strings stretched between two points.
call string instruments are classified as chordophones. Violins, guitars, lyres,
and harps are examples. However, the word also embraces instruments
that many would hesitate to call string instruments, such as the musical
bow and the piano (which, although sometimes called a string instrument,
is also called a keyboard instrument and a percussion instrument).
 Electrophone
• Electrophone, any of a class of
musicalinstruments in which the initial sound
either is produced by electronic means or is
conventionally produced (as by a vibrating
string) and electronically amplified.
Electronically amplified
conventional instruments include guitars,
pianos, and others.