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In the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system, idiophones are designated as '1'.

1: Idiophones. instrument in which the substance of the instrument itself produces sounds, without requiring stretched membranes or strings.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Category:Idiophones” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.