Classification of National Musical Instruments


A presentation of various national musical instruments, their classification, and the popularity of each type across different cultures. In some cases, instruments remain in wide use within the nation but in others, their importance is primarily symbolic. Each instrument is also classified by the Hornbostel-Sachs system in which they're categorized based on the sound they produce.

Chordophone

Chordophones
A chordophone is an instrument whose sounds are made by causing strings to vibrate , either by plucking them or drawing a bow across them and struck as in a piano.

Aerophone

Aerophones
An aerophone is any musical instrument that produces sound primarily by causing a body of air to vibrate without the use of strings or membranes.

Idiophone

Idiophones
An idiophone is an instrument the whole of which vibrates to produce a sound when struck, shaken, or scraped, such as a bell, gong, or rattle.

Membranophone

Membranophones
A membranophone is any of a class of musical instruments in which a stretched membrane vibrates to produce sound.

Map of National Instruments


CSE 163: Data Programming for Visualization

Fall 2022

Created by: Bhaswati Das Gupta (bdasgupt@ucsc.edu), CJ Guzman(cgdeguzm@ucsc.edu), Hersh Kalsi (hekalsi@ucsc.edu), Brendan Schierloh (bschierl@ucsc.edu)

In collaboration with Suresh K Lodha, Omkar Ghanekar, and Jacob Low

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Files Submitted Data Sources Visualization Sources Code Sources
  • index.html
  • music.js
  • music.css
  • nation-instruments.csv
  • countries.geo.json
  • broad-type.csv
  • minot-type.csv
  • specific-type.csv
  • idiophone.jpg
  • chordophone.jpg
  • aerophone.jpg
  • membranophone.jpg
  • README.md
  • Map of Gods
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