User:Florenus/sandbox/talk

The onmouseover indications (title) of the table should be completed with popular German and French names too.

Up to date (Apr. 2009) about 550 (excluding the vocals listed) are the musical instruments defined and listed by the English wikipedia. Not necessarily all of them need the code assignement if their main family branch will be represented.

According to the mentioned list of musical instruments this is their statistical distribution to date, ordered by the frquency of their name's first letter:


 * letter S: 68 entries
 * letter C: 58 entries
 * letter T: 48 entries
 * letter B: 47 entries
 * letter M: 31 entries
 * letter D: 32 entries
 * letter K: 30 entries
 * letter H: 28 entries
 * letter G: 27 entries
 * letter A: 25 entries
 * letter P: 20 entries
 * letter O: 18 entries
 * letter R: 17 entries
 * letter L: 16 entries
 * letter F: 16 entries
 * letter V: 15 entries
 * letter E: 11 entries
 * letter W: 9 entries
 * letter I: 9 entries
 * letter N: 7 entries
 * letter Z: 5 entries
 * letter X: 5 entries
 * letter U: 5 entries
 * letter J: 5 entries
 * letter Y: 4 entries
 * letter Q: 4 entries

Not all of them can be considered popular in the very sense, but this is actually the focus of the discussion.

The instruments included up-to-date in the table are the base data of the companion template.

--Florenus (talk) 16:12, 2 April 2009 (UTC)