《Classification of musical instruments》

Japanese: 《楽器分類学》 - がっきぶんるいがく
《Classification of musical instruments》

...For example, the bull roarer, the African thumb piano, and the Jew's harp (mouth harp), which is widely distributed around the world, are examples of this. For this reason, when classifying musical instruments in instrumentology and ethnomusicology, the Sachs-Hornbostel system proposed by Hornbostel and C. Sachs in "Taxophonology" (1914) is usually used. According to this system, all musical instruments are first classified into four types: idiophones, membranophones, chordophones, and aerophones, and each of these is further classified.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "instrument taxonomy" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…たとえば,ブル・ロアラー,アフリカの親指ピアノ,世界に広く分布するジューズ・ハープ(口琴)などがそれである。このため楽器学や民族音楽学で楽器を分類する場合は,この3分法でなく,通常ホルンボステルとC.ザックスが《楽器分類学》(1914)で提唱したザックス=ホルンボステル法と呼ばれる分類法を用いる。それによると,あらゆる楽器は,まず体鳴楽器idiophones,膜鳴楽器membranophones,弦鳴楽器chordophones,気鳴楽器aerophonesの4種類に分類され,それぞれがさらに細かく分類される。…

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