Quiz 4: Timbre: Western, Indian, Gamelan

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Western: Blown wind instrument, flute like sound

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Western: A blown wind instrument with extra drone notes.

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Western: Sound produced with metal reeds with air forced through them.

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Western: An electric slide guitar often used in country music, notes are changed with a steel cylinder (Bottle neck)

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Western: A non- electric guitar that may have metal or nylon strings.

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Western: A steel stringed guitar, either strummed (Rhythm guitar) to produce broken chords) or individual notes plucked. (lead guitar)

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Western: Keyboard instruments in which the wind supply is directed towards free metal reeds as those of a harmonica or accordion are called reed organs. They include the melodeon, developed in the United States about 1825

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Western: A blown instrument producing tunes from metal reeds

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Western: A keyboard percussion instrument. Hammers hit strings to make the sounds.

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Western: A keyboard instrument associated with the Baroque period. Strings are plucked to make the sounds.

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Western: A keyboard instrument associated with the Church with metal flute and reed pipes.

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Western: An electronic instrument which can be programmed to produce a wide variety of timbres some of which imitate acoustic instruments.

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Western: A keyboard using electronics to produce the sound. This could include synthesisers, electronic organ and porta-sound instruments.

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Indian: tuned drums.

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Indian: An Indian fretted stringed instrument similar to the lute with plucked and sympathetic drone strings.

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Indian: The Sarod is a fretless lute, with a fingerboard faced with metal. It has a sound table of goatskin. The Sarode has generally 8 to 10 main playing strings and 11 to 16 sympathetic strings. It is plucked with a pick made coconut shell. It evolved from the ancient Rabab, sometime it the 19th century. The Sarode is shorter than the Sitar in length and has a clearer, rounder tone. The Sarod is capable of both long slides and fast percussive phrases.

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Indian: An instrument (played like a fiddle) used mainly in Indian classical music. The Sarangi consists of squat, truncated body. Like the Sarode, it has a soundboard of goatskin. It has three main playing strings of heavy gut. These are the ones, which are bowed. It also has additional 30-40 metal sympathetic strings, which give the instrument its characteristic sound.

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Indian: A keyboard instrument rather like a small organ where bellows provide the wind power for the sound.

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Indian: A woodwind instrument used in Western music.

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Indian: A bowed string instrument just like the Western violin.

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Gamelan: A Gamelan orchestra from South East Asia contains gongs and bells

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Gamelan: Instruments with large metal tuned keys. Music of South East Asia.

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Central/ South America: A south American folk instrument.

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Central/ South America: A whistle rather like a referee's whistle, blown as an added effect in a samba rhythmic accompaniment.

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Central/ South America: Metal bars with a sounding box are hit to produce sound. This is similar to the glockenspiel and metalophone.

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Central/ South America: Two small hand hit drums, often held between the knees and used for Latin music.

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Central/ South America: Two pieces of hard wood hit together. They are often used in Latin music as part of the rhythm section, playing on off beats.

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Central/ South America: Shaken hollow spheres with seeds or beads inside. Used for rhythmic effect in Latin music.

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Central/ south America: The instrument is made out of a steel drum with raised areas tuned to specific notes using a Western pitch system. The Steel Band uses conventional Western harmony combined with rhumba reggae or related 30'pop' styles.