The Hornbostel–Sachs system for classifying musical instruments defines idiophones as instruments that make sound mainly by the instrument itself vibrating. These instruments do not use membranes or strings to create sound.
Idiophones (1)
Idiophones are instruments that make sound when hit, shaken, or scraped. Also see Struck idiophones.
111.1 Concussion Idiophones (Clappers)
111.11 Concussion Sticks (Clap Sticks)
• Claves
111.12 Concussion Plaques (Plaque Clappers)
• Clapper
• Guban
• Paiban
• Hyoshigi
• Pak
• Slapstick
111.13 Concussion Troughs (Trough Clappers)
• Balingbing
111.14 Concussion Vessels (Vessel Clappers)
• Spoons
111.141 Castanets – Natural and hollowed-out vessel clappers
• Castanets
• Coconut shells
• Krap
111.142 Cymbals – Vessel clappers with manufactured rim
• Chap
• Ching
• Cymbals, in pairs (Clash Cymbals, in pairs)
• Bock-a-da-bock
111.143 Concussion Bells
111.2 Percussion Idiophones
111.21 Percussion Sticks or Bars
111.211 Individual percussion sticks
• Dhantal
• Triangle
111.212 Sets of percussion sticks in a range of different pitches combined into one instrument. – All xylophones, as long as their sounding components are not in two different planes.
• Balafon
• Gandingan a kayo
• Glasschord
• Glass Marimba
• Kulintang a kayo
• Luntang or kwintangan kayo
• Marimba
• Marimbaphone (also bowed)
• Pong lang
• Xylophone
• Xylorimba
111.22 Percussion Plaques
111.221 Individual percussion plaques
111.222 Sets of percussion plaques
• Crotales
• Lithophone
• Metallophones
• Celesta
• Fangxiang
• Gangsa
• Gendér
• Glockenspiel
• Kulintang a tiniok (kulintang a putao, sarunay)
• Ranat ek lek
• Ranat thum lek
• Toy piano
• Ugal
• Vibraphone
111.23 Percussion Tubes
111.231 Individual percussion tubes.
• Agung a tamlang
• Alimba
• Huari
• Huiringua
• Kagul
• Krin or Kolokolos
• Mondo
• Mukoko
• Slit drum
• Takuapu
• Teponaztli
111.232 Sets of percussion tubes.
• Jegog
• Tubular bells or chimes
111.24 Percussion Vessels.
• Boungu
• Cajón
• Chuk
• Cymbals (Crash cymbal, Hi-hat cymbal, Ride cymbal, Splash cymbal)
• Handpan
• Hang
• Kagul or tagutok
• Slit drums:
• Slit gong
• Steelpan or steel drum
• Tank drum
• Udu (also an aerophone)
• Wood block
111.241 Gongs – The vibration is strongest near the vertex.
111.241.1 Individual gongs.
• Babendil
111.241.11 Bossed gongs, flat gongs (with flange) and intermediate types
111.241.12 Concussion gongs, flat gongs (with flange) and intermediate types
111.241.13 Bossed gongs, flat gongs (with flange) and intermediate types
111.241.14 Bossed gongs, flat gongs (with flange) and intermediate types
111.241.15 Bossed gongs, flat gongs (with flange) and intermediate types
111.241.16 Bossed gongs, flat gongs (with flange) and intermediate types
111.241.17 Bossed gongs, flat gongs (with flange) and intermediate types
111.241.18 Bossed gongs, flat gongs (with flange) and intermediate types
111.241.19 Bossed gongs, flat gongs (with flange) and intermediate types
111.241.20 Bossed gongs, flat gongs (with flange) and intermediate types
111.241.21 Bossed gongs, flat gongs (with flange) and intermediate types
111.241.22 Bossed gongs, flat gongs (with flange) and intermediate types
111.241.23 Bossed gongs, flat gongs (with flange) and intermediate types
111.241.24 Bossed gongs, flat gongs (with