Metallophones

Saron, metallophone with six or seven bronze

keys placed on a wooden frame, from Java, Indonesia.

Vibraphone, Each bar is paired with a

resonator tube that has a motor-driven butterfly valve at its upper
end.

Gender, is a metallophone with thin bronze

slab keys of Indonesia.

Glockenspiel, originally a set of graduated

bells, later a set of tuned steel struck with wood,
ebonite, or, sometimes, metal hammers.

Kin(Bowl Gong), Hammered-bronze

bowl gong. Red-lacquered wooden stand with bronze
plaque fittings andblue cushion.

2. Fiddles

Box Fiddle,(Donegal Fiddle)

3. Zithers

Han Koto, from Japan. Hollow, rectangular

wooden body with thirteen silk strings.

Qin from Hongkong. The history of

the qin can be traced back more than 3,000 years to the Zhou dynasty (ca.
1100-221 BC), when it was an integral part of art music.

Sanjo kayakum from Korea. Plucked,

long zither. Hollow, wooden body with 12 strings, each with a
moveable wooden bridge.

4. Dulcimers

Yangqin from China. Hammered

dulcimer played with two bamboo beaters.
Trapezoidal, hardwood body, sometimes referred to
as hudie qin ("butterfly qin") with two outstretched wings.

AEROPHONES
1.Flute
Qudi from China.
Transverse, bamboo flute with bone end-caps

Xiao from central China. End-blown, bamboo

flute with notch cut into naturally occurring node.

Shakuhachi from japan. End-blown, bamboo

notched flute.