Friction idiophones is designation 13 in the
Hornbostel-Sachs system of musical instrument classification. These
idiophones
An idiophone is any musical instrument that creates sound primarily by the vibration of the instrument itself, without the use of air flow (as with aerophones), strings (chordophones), membranes (membranophones) or electricity ( electrophone ...
produce sound by being rubbed either against each other or by means of a non-sounding object. Instruments of this type are not very common; possibly the best known examples are the
musical saw
A musical saw, also called a singing saw, is a hand saw used as a musical instrument. Capable of continuous glissando (portamento), the sound creates an ethereal tone, very similar to the theremin. The musical saw is classified as a plaque frict ...
and the
nail violin
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The nail violin is a musical instrument that consists of a semicircular wooden Sound board (music), soundboard, with Nail (engineering), nails of various lengths arranged to produce a chromatic scale when a Bow (music), bow is drawn across them. ...
.
According to musicologist
Curt Sachs
Curt Sachs (; 29 June 1881 – 5 February 1959) was a German musicologist. He was one of the founders of modern organology (the study of musical instruments). Among his contributions was the Hornbostel–Sachs system, which he created with Eric ...
:
[Sachs, Curt (1940). ''The History of Musical Instruments'', p.456-7. W. W. Nortan & Company, Inc. ]
Friction sticks (131)
131.1 Individual friction sticks.
131.2 Sets of friction sticks.
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Nail violin
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The nail violin is a musical instrument that consists of a semicircular wooden Sound board (music), soundboard, with Nail (engineering), nails of various lengths arranged to produce a chromatic scale when a Bow (music), bow is drawn across them. ...
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Cristal baschet, preceded by the
euphon
131.21 Without direct friction.
131.22 With direct friction.
Friction plaques (132)
132.1 Individual friction plaques.
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Daxophone
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Musical saw
A musical saw, also called a singing saw, is a hand saw used as a musical instrument. Capable of continuous glissando (portamento), the sound creates an ethereal tone, very similar to the theremin. The musical saw is classified as a plaque frict ...
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Triolin
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Turntable
A phonograph, later called a gramophone, and since the 1940s a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogue reproduction of sound. The sound vibration waveforms are recorded as corresponding phys ...
132.2 Sets of friction plaques.
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Clavicylinder
Friction vessels (133)
133.1 Individual friction vessels.
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Rainstick
A rainstick is a long, hollow tube of bamboo or dried cactus that is partially flooded with small pebbles, rice, dried beans, or other hard granular matter. The inside surface of the tube has small pins or thorns arranged helically. When the st ...
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Singing Bowl
A standing bell or resting bell is an inverted bell, supported from below with the rim uppermost. Such bells are normally bowl-shaped, and exist in a wide range of sizes, from a few centimetres to a metre in diameter. They are often played by st ...
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Ekola
133.2 Sets of friction vessels.
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Glass harmonica
The glass harmonica, also known as the glass armonica, glass harmonium, bowl organ, hydrocrystalophone, or simply the armonica or harmonica (derived from , ''harmonia'', the Greek language, Greek word for harmony), is a type of musical instr ...
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Glass harp
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Terpodion/melodion
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Verrophone
See also
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Wind machine
References
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SVH Classification, ''Wesleyan.edu''.
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