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The style of music uses different instruments, such as the Sanxian (lute with 3 strings and no frets).

Most Chinese music is quite calming.

The scales are also different, in traditional western style music the scale has eight notes in eastern music it has only five notes causing it to sound quite different.

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Q: Why does Chinese music sound different from typical western style music?

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The style of music uses different instruments, such as the Sanxian (lute with 3 strings and no frets).

Most Chinese music is quite calming.

The scales are also different, in traditional western style music the scale has eight notes in eastern music it has only five notes causing it to sound quite different.

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Cello, Violin, Viola, Bass, Double Bass, Mandolin, Banjo, ukulele harp, there are many many more

ie-Traditional string instruments by country

Abyssinia (Eritrea & Ethiopia)
- Krar
North America:
- Appalachian dulcimer
- Autoharp
- Banjo
Benelux:
- Hommel
- Vlier
- Épinette
- Hakkebord
Brazil:
- Cavaquinho
- Berimbau
- Brazilian viola
Bulgaria:
- Gadulka
- Tambura
Burundi:
- Inanga (zither) (also Burundian zither)
China:
- Guqin (7-string zither)
- Guzheng (21-string zither)
- Huqin (family of bowed lutes)
- Erhu (2-string bowed lute)
- Gaohu (2-string bowed lute, high pitched)
- Pipa (4-string pear-shaped lute)
- Sanxian (3-string fretless lute)
- Yángqín (hammered dulcimer)
- Zhu
Congo:
- Lindanda
Croatia:
- Gunjac (Croatia)
- Tamburitza
Estonia:
- Kannel
Finland:
- Kannel
- Kantele
France:
- Épinette
Germany:
- Scheitholt
- Hackbrett
- Hammered dulcimer
Greece:
- Bouzouki
- Lyre
Hungary:
- Cimbalom
Iceland:
- Langspil
India:
- Sarod
- Sarangi
- Sitar
- Veena
- Saraswati veena
- Rudra veena
- Vichitra veena
- Gottuvadhyam veena
- Mohan veena
- Mahanataka veena
- Santoor
- Esraj
- Ektara
- Tanpura
- Sarinda
Iran:
- Sitar
- Tar (lute)
- Santur
- Kamancheh
Italy:
- Chitarra battente ("knocking guitar")
Japan:
- Ichigenkin
- Koto
- Shamisen
Korea:
- Gayageum
- Geomungo
Latvia:
- kokle
Lithuania:
- Kanklės
Malawi:
- Bangwe
Norway:
- Hardingfele (Hardanger fiddle)
- Langeleik
Oceania:
- Ukulele
Philippines:
- Fegereng (Tiruray)
- Kutiyapi (Maguindanaon)
Puerto Rico:
- Bordonua
- Cuatro
- Tiple
Rwanda:
- Inanga
Russia:
- Balalaika
- Domra
- Gusli
Slovenia:
- Drone zither
Traditional string instruments by country
- Abyssinia (Eritrea & Ethiopia)
  - Krar
- North America:
  - Appalachian dulcimer
  - Autoharp
  - Banjo
- Benelux:
  - Hommel
  - Vlier
  - Épinette
  - Hakkebord
- Brazil:
  - Cavaquinho
  - Berimbau
  - Brazilian viola
- Bulgaria:
  - Gadulka
  - Tambura
- Burundi:
  - Inanga (zither) (also Burundian zither)
- China:
  - Guqin (7-string zither)
  - Guzheng (21-string zither)
  - Huqin (family of bowed lutes)
  - Erhu (2-string bowed lute)
  - Gaohu (2-string bowed lute, high pitched)
  - Pipa (4-string pear-shaped lute)
  - Sanxian (3-string fretless lute)
  - Yángqín (hammered dulcimer)
  - Zhu
- Congo:
  - Lindanda
- Croatia:
  - Gunjac (Croatia)
  - Tamburitza
- Estonia:
  - Kannel
- Finland:
  - Kannel
  - Kantele
- France:
  - Épinette
- Germany:
  - Scheitholt
  - Hackbrett
  - Hammered dulcimer
- Greece:
  - Bouzouki
  - Lyre
- Hungary:
  - Cimbalom
- Iceland:
  - Langspil
- India:
  - Sarod
  - Sarangi
  - Sitar
  - Veena
  - Saraswati veena
  - Rudra veena
  - Vichitra veena
  - Gottuvadhyam veena
  - Mohan veena
  - Mahanataka veena
  - Santoor
  - Esraj
  - Ektara
  - Tanpura
  - Sarinda
- Iran:
  - Sitar
  - Tar (lute)
  - Santur
  - Kamancheh
- Italy:
  - Chitarra battente ("knocking guitar")
- Japan:
  - Ichigenkin
  - Koto
  - Shamisen
- Korea:
  - Gayageum
  - Geomungo
- Latvia:
  - kokle
- Lithuania:
  - Kanklės
- Malawi:
  - Bangwe
- Norway:
  - Hardingfele (Hardanger fiddle)
  - Langeleik
- Oceania:
  - Ukulele
- Philippines:
  - Fegereng (Tiruray)
  - Kutiyapi (Maguindanaon)
- Puerto Rico:
  - Bordonua
  - Cuatro
  - Tiple
- Rwanda:
  - Inanga
- Russia:
  - Balalaika
  - Domra
  - Gusli
- Slovenia:
  - Drone zither
- Java:
  - Sundanese Kacapi
- Sweden:
  - Hummel
  - Nyckelharpa
- Tanzania:
  - Zeze
- Ukraine:
  - Bandura
  - Kobza
  - Tsymbaly
- Venezuela:
  - Cuatro
- Vietnam:
  - Dan Tranh
  - Dan Thap Luc Java:
- Sundanese Kacapi
Sweden:
- Hummel
- Nyckelharpa
Tanzania:
- Zeze
Ukraine:
- Bandura
- Kobza
- Tsymbaly
Venezuela:
- Cuatro
Vietnam:
- Dan Tranh
- Dan Thap Luc

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A sitar is one

Wind instruments:

# Samponia (Peru)

# Shakuhachi (Japan)

# Shinobue (Japan)

# Shvi (Armenia)

# Siku

# Slide whistle

# Suling (Indonesia/Philippines)

# Subcontrabass flute

Single reed instruments:

# Sopranino clarinet (E♭ clarinet, D clarinet)

# Soprano clarinet (C clarinet, B♭ clarinet, A clarinet, G clarinet)

# Saxonette

# Saxophone

# Soprillo

# Sopranino saxophone

Double reed instruments:

# Sarrusophones:

# Shawm

# Sralai (Cambodia)

# Suona (China)

# Surnay

Brass instruments:

# Sackbut

# Saxhorn

# Subcontrabass tuba

# Serpent

# Shofar

# Sousaphone

Free reed instruments:

# Saenghwang

# Sanza (Mbira)

String instruments:

# Steel guitar

# Sallameh (Iran)

# Sanshin (Okinawa)

# Santoor (India)

# Sanxian (China)

# Saung (Burma)

# Saw sam sai (Thailand)

# Saz

# Se (China)

# Shamisen (Japan)

# Setar (lute) (Persia)

# Sitar (India)

# Stroh violin

# Sopranino mandolin

Drums:

# Sabar (Senegal)

# Sampho (Cambodia)

# Snare

# Steel drum

# Surdo (Brazil)

Other percussion instruments:

# Splash cymbal

# Shekere

# Singing bowl

# Slit Drum

# Spoons

# Steelpan

Electronic instruments:

# Sampler

# Synclavier

# Synthesizer
the letter 's' for an instrment could be a saxophone. or a percussion instroment of some sort. :D

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Saxophone, Strings, Sousaphone, Soprano Clarinet, Sistra, Slit Drum, Stamper, Soda Bottle, Scrub Board, Stones, Shell Trumpet, Skin Drum, Shofar, Saxhorn, Sackbut, Serpent, Sheng, Sho, Sitar, Snare Drum, Synthesizer, Slide Whistle, Samponia, Shakuhachi, Shinobue, Shvi, Siku, Suling, Subcontrabass Flute, Saxonette, Soprillo, Sopranino Saxaphone, Subcontrabass Saxophone, Sarrusophones, Sopranino Sarrusophone, Soprano Sarrusophone, Sea Shell, Shawm, Sralai, Suona, Surnay, Subcontrabass Tuba, Sanza, Saenghwang, Siren, Slide Guitar, Steel Guitar, Seven-String Guitar, Sallameh, Sanshin, Santoor, Sanxian, Saung, Saw sam sai, Saw, Saz, Se, Shamisen, Setar Lute, Stroh Violin, Sopranino Mandolin, Sabar, Sampho, Surdo, Splash Cymbal, Shekere, Singing Bowl, Spoons, Steelpan, Sampler, Synclavier, Suikinkutsu, Shishi odoshi, Sea Organ
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Saxaphone Saxaphone
I can think of saxophone, sousaphone

(a kind of tuba worn over your shoulder),

snare drum (is side drum another name for a

snare drum?), shakuhachi (a Japanese vertical

flute or recorder 1 and 8/10 of a foot long), and

samisen (a banjo-like Japanese stringed instrument

sometimes called shamisen) off the top of my head.

Any others?

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The banjo is believed to have originated in the Middle East and Africa and been brought to America with the slaves.

The original banjos were really drums with strings pulled tightly across them, which were plated by either plucking or drawing a bow across them. The first actual record of a banjo seems to have been made by Richard Johnson in 1620. While exploring the Gambra River in Africa, he wrote in his diary of an instrument "made of a great gourd and a neck, thereunto was fastened strings."

The invention of the banjo was inspired by African stringed instruments that were made with dried gourds. The 5-string banjo developed out of these African instruments when slaves were brought to the American colonies. The Africans reconstructed instruments based on the ones indigenous to the areas from which they had come. They were made in imitation of stringed instruments found in their homeland of Africa, like the akonting.

The banjo was popularized in the 1830s by Joel Sweeney, and was taken to Britain in the 1840s.

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