534a12: Free aerophone

534a12: Free aerophone

Description

In free aerophones the air is not confined by the instrument. The air is set in vibration by the whirling of a sharp-edged device, made of animal bone, stone, bamboo, metal, plastic, or wood.

Examples:

Bullroarers
Spinning humming tops
Buzzing discs

Context for this page:

Ocm module: Free aerophone
In ocm module: Aerophones
In ocm module: Musical instruments
In modular book: Expanded ethnomusicology categories for the Outline of Cultural Materials, by Kenneth R. Hollingsworth
In bookshelf: Anthropology

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 3.5, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

Page content last modified: 21 March 1999