List of musical instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number: 312.22

This is a list of instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number, covering those instruments that are classified under 312.22 under that system. These instruments are single-stringed heterochord musical bows with an attached resonator and a tuning noose.

3: Instruments in which sound is produced by one or more vibrating strings (chordophones, string instruments).
31: Instruments which consist solely of a string bearer or a string bearer with a resonator that is not integral to the instrument
312: Instrument has a string bearer made of a vaulted surface (tube zithers)
312.2: Instrument has strings that are stretched across a convex gutter (half-tube zithers)
312.22: Instrument is a heterochord

These instruments may be classified with a suffix, based on how the strings are caused to vibrate.

Instrument Tradition Hornbostel–Sachs classification Description
ajaeng
아쟁, 牙箏
Korea 312.22 Half-tube zither with seven silk strings, played with a piece of forsythia wood
Đàn tranh
檀箏
Vietnam 312.22 Wooden-bodied and steel-stringed zither
gayageum[1][2]
kayagum, kayago, kayagŭm, 가야금, 伽倻琴
Korea 312.22-5 zither-like string instrument, with 12 strings.
geomungo
komungo, kŏmun'go, hyeongeum, hyongum, hyŏn'gŭm
Korea 312.22 Fretted zither
guqin
China 312.22
guzheng [3]
zheng, gu-zheng
China 312.22-5 Half-tube zither, rectangular with three sound holes on the bottom, now with twenty-one strings most typically, pentatonic tuning, strings are plucked by hand
koto[4]
Japan 312.22 Long and hollow thirteen-stringed instrument
koto, 17-string
Japan 312.22 17-stringed koto
se
China 312.22 Ancient plucked instrument
yazheng
ya zheng, ya cheng
China 312.22

References

Notes

  1. "Kayagum 3". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2008-05-31.
  2. "Kayagum". University of Washington Libraries. Retrieved 2008-05-31.
  3. "Dong Yi in Zheng Recital at the Great Hall of the People". Link Chinese. Retrieved December 21, 2007. As the most popular national instrument in China, zheng (also known as gu-zheng) is one of the eldest Chinese string instruments with a history of at least 2,500 years.
  4. "Koto". Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved March 13, 2008.
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