Sacred musical instruments

thumb|Didgeridoo and clapstick players performing at [[Nightcliff, Northern Territory]] thumb|240px|Sound of didgeridoo thumb|240px|A didgeribone, a sliding-type didgeridoo

simple woodwind musical instrument, formed by tying various lengths of pipe together, now typically made from bamboo

thumb|322x322px|Young kitharode|kithara player, in costume, by the Goluchow painter; Athens, The kithara (), Latinized as cithara, was an ancient Greek musical instrument in the yoke lutes family. It was a seven-stringed professional version of the lyre, which was regarded as a rustic, or folk instrument, appropriate for teaching music to beginners. As opposed to the simpler lyre, the cithara was primarily used by professional musicians, called kitharodes. In modern Greek, the word kithara has come to mean "guitar"; etymologically, the word guitar derives from kithara.

thumbnail|Shofar thumbnail|Shofar thumbnail|Blowing the shofar A shofar ( ; from , ) is an ancient musical horn, typically a ram's horn, used for Jewish ritual purposes. Like the modern bugle, the shofar lacks pitch-altering devices, with all pitch control done by the player's varying their embouchure. The shofar is blown in synagogue services on Rosh Hashanah and at the end of Yom Kippur; it is also blown every weekday morning in the month of Elul running up to Rosh Hashanah. Shofars come in a variety of sizes and shapes, depending on the choice of animal and level of finish.

The veena, also spelled vina ( IAST: vīṇā), is any of various chordophone instruments from the Indian subcontinent. Ancient musical instruments evolved into many variations, such as lutes, zithers and arched harps. The many regional designs have different names such as the Rudra veena, the Saraswati veena, the Vichitra veena and others.

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thumb|upright=1.2|A sekhem-style sistrum

The balafon (pronounced , or, by analogy with xylophone etc., ) is a gourd-resonated xylophone, a type of struck idiophone. It is closely associated with the neighbouring Mandé, Bwaba Bobo, Senoufo and Gur peoples of West Africa, particularly the Guinean branch of the Mandinka ethnic group, but is now found across West Africa from Guinea, Burkina Faso, Mali. Its common name, balafon, is likely a European coinage combining its Mandinka name bála () with the word fóo (nyáa) () 'to say / method of saying' or the Greek root phono.

The is a Japanese short-necked wooden lute traditionally used in narrative storytelling. The is a plucked string instrument that first gained popularity in China before spreading throughout East Asia, eventually reaching Japan sometime during the Nara period (710–794).

The term Tanbur can refer to various long-necked string instruments originating in Mesopotamia, Southern or Central Asia. According to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, "terminology presents a complicated situation. Nowadays the term tanbur (or tambur) is applied to a variety of distinct and related long-necked lutes used in art and folk traditions. Similar or identical instruments are also known by other terms." These instruments are used in the traditional music of Iran, Iraq, India, Armenia, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan (especially Avar community), Pakistan, Turkey, Tajikistan, Ka

right|thumb|upright=1.3|Bullroarers from Africa in the Pitt Rivers Museum

wooden percussion instrument used in Buddhist rituals in East Asia

thumb|333px|A Russian monk playing a semantron

console-type of steel guitar with foot pedals to raise and lower the pitch of the strings

Kinnor ( kīnnōr) is an ancient Israelite musical instrument in the yoke lutes family, the first one to be mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.

The is a double reed Japanese used as one of two main melodic instruments in music. It is one of the "sacred" instruments and is often heard at Shinto weddings in Japan. Its sound is often described as haunting.

musical instrument made from a seashell (conch)

The kobyz or qobyz, also known as the kylkobyz, is an ancient Turkic bowed string instrument, spread among Kazakhs, Karakalpaks, Bashkirs, and Tatars. The Kyrgyz variant is called the ).

thumb|Psalmodicon from a farm on the island Skorpa, Nordland|Skorpa in [[Helgeland, Norway, with bow and music book in siffernotskrift]] thumb|Psalmodikon from Gagnef, Dalarna, Sweden, made in 1869, originally with three strings thumb|Psalmodikon, played at the School Museum in Djurmo, Dalarna, Sweden The psalmodicon (psalmodikon or salmodikon) is a stringed musical instrument a type of Monochord; the most common variants have a single string. It was developed in Scandinavia for simplifying music in churches and schools, and as an alternative to the fiddle for sacred music. The instrument coul

thumb|330x330px|19th century (Edo period) yamato-goto (shown here without bridges); collection of the [[Tokyo National Museum]]

traditional string instrument

Balinese gamelan variant

thumb|A Japanese ryūteki player in Kamakura, Kanagawa 48px|thumb|right|A traditional ryūteki Fue (flute)|fue

Chinese double-headed barrel drum

thumb|200px|taphon The taphon (, ) is a traditional drum of Thailand. It is barrel-shaped with two heads, and is played by the hands and fingers of both hands, much like the more popular congas.

style of gamelan music