Instruments
8 terms
Accordion
The accordion is a bellows-driven keyboard instrument with a piano keyboard on the right and chord buttons on the left.
Bayan
The bayan is a button-keyboard variant of the accordion with button systems on both sides.
Harmonica
The harmonica is a small free-reed wind instrument in which sound is produced by inhaling and exhaling air through chambers.
Khene
The khene is a mouth organ of bamboo pipes, the national instrument of Laos and northeastern Thailand.
Melodica
The melodica is a compact wind instrument with a keyboard, into which one blows through a mouthpiece.
Sho
The sho is a Japanese mouth organ of bamboo pipes that produces “heavenly” cluster chords in the court music of gagaku.
Harmonium
The harmonium is a keyboard instrument that sounds thanks to air pumped by pedals through metal reeds.
Sheng
The sheng is an ancient Chinese mouth organ of vertical bamboo pipes.
