In music, an instrument is any mechanical contrivance for the production of musical sound. Musical instruments are divided into three kinds - wind-instruments, stringed instruments, and instruments of percussion. The chief modern stringed instruments are the violin, viola, violoncello, and double bass, the harp, mandoline, guitar, and piano; the chief wind-instruments, the flute, oboe, bassoon, clarinet, basset-horn, French horn, trumpet, trombone, cornet, organ, etc, the chief percussion instruments, the drum, tambourine, cymbals, and triangle. Research Instrument
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