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idiophone
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Idiophone
An
idiophone
is any
musical instrument
that creates sound primarily by the instrument as a whole vibrating—without the use of
strings
or
membrane
s. It is the first of the four main divisions in the original Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of
musical instrument classification
(see
List of idiophones by Hornbostel-Sachs number
). The early classification of
Victor-Charles Mahillon
called this group of instruments
autophones
.
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