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Name: Classifying Musical Instruments
ID: m11896
Language: English (en)
Summary: An introduction to a classification system for all musical isntruments.
Subject: Arts
Keywords: aerophones, brass instruments, chordophones, drums, electrophones, idiophones, keyboard instruments, membranophones, musical instruments, percussion, string instruments, strings, winds, woodwinds
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 1.0
Authors: Catherine Schmidt-Jones (casjones@soltec.net)
Copyright Holders: Catherine Schmidt-Jones (casjones@soltec.net)
Maintainers: Catherine Schmidt-Jones (casjones@soltec.net)
Latest version: 1.6 (history)
First publication date: Apr 7, 2004 2:09 pm GMT-5
Last revision to module: Oct 11, 2004 9:38 am GMT-5
Module XML: m11896_1.6.cnxml

Version History

Version: 1.6 Oct 11, 2004 9:38 am GMT-5 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
Added acknowledgements section.
Version: 1.5 Sep 27, 2004 11:08 am GMT-5 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
Added "chordphone types" figure
Version: 1.4 Jun 15, 2004 9:57 am GMT-5 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
Added more illustrations
Version: 1.3 Jun 8, 2004 8:51 am GMT-5 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
Improved images
Version: 1.2 Apr 16, 2004 2:11 pm GMT-5 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
Published orchestral classification separately, added figures, rewrote electrophones, and corrected typos.
Version: 1.1 Apr 15, 2004 11:02 am GMT-5 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
Changes: 
new module

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