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Erich Moritz von Hornbostel was an Austrian ethnomusicologist and Curt Sachs was a German ethnomusicologist. together they devised the Hornbostel-Sachs music instrument classification system around about 1914.
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The Hornbostel-Sachs method of instrument classification has 5 main categories, and more than 300 basic groups under those. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornbostel-Sachs
Using the Hornbostel-Sachs system of instrument classification, it is a plucked chordophone.
A patatag is an instrument.
In the Sachs- Hornbostel system there are five categories of instruments based on the physical characteristics of sound. The chordophones are instruments with strings stretched between fixed points. Aerophones are instruments that use air as primary source of vibrations. Membranophones are instruments that vibrate by means of tightly stretched skins. Idiophones are instruments that are sounded by the instrument itself. Electrophones is the last category that was added due to the advancement of technology.
Henry Hornbostel was born in 1867.
Tapayyay is the hot of maranao.
Erich von Hornbostel died on November 28, 1935 at the age of 58.
Umm don't you mean what is the role of Ganza in bateria?
Pianos can be classified as either a stringed or percussion instrument... Quoth the wikipedia... "It is sometimes classified as both a percussion and a stringed instrument. According to the Hornbostel-Sachs method of music classification, it is grouped with Chordophones."
Erich von Hornbostel was born on February 25, 1877.