Talk:Musical instrument classification

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Where does the harp fit? I think it's somewhere in the keyboards/string-percussion, but I don't know enough to add it into the article. thanks! -- Dreamyshade

It depends which classification system you mean. Normally it would just be described as a "string instrument", but the Hornbostel-Sachs system, for instance, calls it a chordophone and (if I remember correctly) puts it alongside various African instruments such as the kora and other instruments where the strings run perpendicular (rather than paralell) to the bridge. I don't think we should talk about individual instruments in this article anyway, which is intended to be more an examination of the various classification systems that have been tried. --Camembert

Musical instrument classification on Wikipedia
I feel that it would be very helpful to create, or use, a system of classification to help group instrument articles together. Being a novice I don't know a whole lot about it, but I think we wikipedians should come up with an all inclusive system to put to use so we can properly group articles and make them easily accessible to the public.Will 19:58, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

This is what I propose(Categories at left, subcategories indented): Wind
 * Woodwinds
 * Brass

String
 * Plucked
 * Bow
 * Keyboard

Percussive
 * Metal
 * Wooden
 * Stone

Idiophone
 * Struck
 * Plucked
 * Blown
 * Friction

Last Paragraph Confusion
As a layman, I find the last paragraph of this article confusing. Would the following re-write be correct?: "Instruments can also be classified by common (not necessarily exclusive) usage; for example, signal instruments." Nisada 04:32, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

Where do flutes and recorders fit in?
The topic paragraph of the Strings, Percussion, and Wind section says "there is a distinction made between wind instruments with a reed (woodwind instruments) and wind instruments where the air is set in motion directly by the lips (brass instruments)."

This seems problematic in that it leaves no wiggle room for reedless woodwinds such as flutes and recorders. Spventi (talk) 03:41, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

The Patent Office!
The United States Patent Office has a way, of course, of classifying musical instruments, and I like it the best, because it includes my favorite instrument, the plectrum piano. 208.54.85.149 (talk) 21:48, 18 May 2014 (UTC)

Article labeled broad subject covering various classifications through history" as if that is a problem
Hello, In May 2014 you added the comment "broad subject covering various classifications through history" to the multiple issues that needed to be dealt with for this article. I want to clean this article up and remove the box at the top, but I don't know what to do with that particular comment. It is a broad subject, I agree, but one that I think is manageable because it doesn't go into depth in any area. I didn't have problems making it through the content but found it needing organization; a decent summary at the top will help with that. Beyond organization and a summary, the only thing I see to make it less broad would be to break it into pieces. I don't like this option, as it was useful to be able to scroll within the same document and compare they systems against one another. Do you have any specific concerns or points I can look at? Jacqke (talk) 12:08, 24 June 2019 (UTC)

The Physical Organology infographic seems out of place
There does not appear to be an citation or really any discussion of why that infographic is included on this page. I do not believe that this taxonomy is common or well-known in music classification. At the very minimum, there should be some sort of reference to where readers can learn more about this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Achmorrison (talk • contribs) 19:18, 12 November 2021 (UTC)

ssification of instruments and there 2 examples
ssification of instruments and there 2 examples 175.176.93.225 (talk) 05:16, 1 September 2022 (UTC)