aerophone
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15 sectionsContents
- Overview
- History
- Types
- Free
- Displacement
- Interruptive
- Plosive
- Non-free
- Flute
- Reed
- Brass
- List of aerophones
- See also
- References
- Further reading
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An aerophone is a musical instrument that produces sound primarily by causing a body of air to vibrate, without the use of strings or membranes (which are respectively chordophones and membranophones), and without the vibration of the instrument itself adding considerably to the sound (or idiophones).