Instruments

The origin of the drums has an ancient multicultural history. The first traces of cymbals...

Percussion instruments are the oldest musical instruments and date back to the dawn of hum...

The history of electronic music as we know it began in 1948 with the broadcast of the Conc...

The guitar is an instrument derived from the Arab lute, taken by Muslims to the Iberian Pe...

It was only in the 1930s that the first electric bass was created. In 1933, the American P...

Fusion of rhythms, melodies and sounds.

beat, in music, the basic rhythmic unit of a measure, or bar, not to be confused with rhyt...

The electric guitar was the result of several small creations over the years. But it was o...

The pandeiro is a type of hand frame drum popular in Brazil. The pandeiro is used in a nu...

Ganzá / Caxixi / Ralttle is a percussion musical instrument of African origin, used in sam...

sound or set of sounds produced by the vibrations of the vocal folds under pressure of the...

The keyboard appeared in the 1960s through the work of Robert Moog, founder of Moog Music...

The synthesizer as we know it began to take shape in 1964 with the invention of Moog modul...

The organ is the oldest keyboard instrument whose descriptions by some Greco-Roman enginee...

The saxophone was invented in Belgium around 1840, by Adolphe Sax. His family is made up o...

The agogô was taken by African slaves to the Americas (where it is also known as agogó, ag...

With its origins coming from Africa, the conga arrived in Cuba at the time of slavery and...

Alfaia is a large wooden drum closely identified with the maracatu genus. Also used in oth...

The piano was created by the Italian inventor Bartolomeu Cristofori, around 1700. Cristofo...

It is a legitimately Brazilian invention: created by Alcebíades Barcelos (1902-1975), the...

The tantã was introduced in samba to replace the surdo demarcation in the samba circles of...

The tchneng (or cheng), an instrument that gave rise to several instruments, including the...

Although there is no consensus on its origin, it is believed that the cuíca was brought to...

The most rudimentary origins of the Acoustic Contrabass date back to the twelfth century,...

The cello – or cello – emerged in Italy in the early 16th century, the result of an evolut...

Tamborim is a percussion instrument of the membranophone type, consisting of a membrane st...

The berimbau is a string instrument that has only two notes, as it is rhythmic, it appeare...

The triangle was first documented in the musical context of medieval Europe, being known b...

In its modern form, it emerged at the end of the 19th century in the province of Oriente,...

It is controversial to determine who made the first violin, since it is derived from at le...

The appearance of the Trombone of sticks takes place in the century. XV between 1410 and 1...

The Reco-reco is an instrument originated in Africa, it is almost always made of wood. The...

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Atabaque is an African percussion musical instrument from the percussion membranophone fam...

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The snare drum is a percussion instrument from the drum family with a slightly higher pitc...

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A mandolin is a stringed musical instrument similar to a pear, with a curved or straight b...

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