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Welcome to the Musical Instruments WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Musical Instruments.

(For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).

Goals

Standardize the appearance and layout of musical instrument related articles.
Improve and generally guide the development of musical instrument related articles.

Scope

Any article relating to musical instruments.

Guidelines

As we have just formed, we will likely be discussing this very matter once we have a workable number of participants. Please see the guideline page for further discussion.

Open tasks

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Musical Instruments/To do}} To do

Participants

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Musical Instruments/Membership}} Membership

Articles

Featured content

Elderly Instruments – listed March 2008
List of Caribbean membranophones – listed June 2009
Taiko – listed March 2015
Roland TR-808 – listed September 2017
Carillon – listed September 2021

Candidates

None

Former featured articles

Saxophone – delisted December 2006
Timpani – delisted August 2007
Guqin – delisted March 2008

Good articles

Pipe organ – listed October 2006; reassessed July 2009
Kulintang – listed March 2007; reassessed July 2009
Gandingan – listed April 2007
Agung – listed June 2007
Musical instrument – listed March 2012; reassessed May 2015
Nord Stage – listed August 2012
Hammond organ – listed August 2013
Mellotron – listed February 2014
Rhodes piano – listed February 2014; reassessed August 2014
Slide guitar – listed December 2017
Vox Continental – listed March 2021
Wurlitzer electronic piano – listed March 2021
Rocky Mount Instruments - listed April 2021
Lap steel guitar – listed July 2021
Clavinet - listed January 2022
Farfisa - listed April 2022
Contrabass trombone - listed March 2023
Cimbasso - listed May 2023
Monotron - listed May 2023
Serpent - listed August 2023
Soprano trombone - listed August 2023
A-flat clarinet - listed January 2024

Former Good articles

String instrument – delisted September 2006
Bassoon – delisted November 2006
Cello – delisted November 2006
Synthesizer – delisted December 2006
Hurdy gurdy – delisted June 2009
Recorder (musical instrument) – delisted July 2009
Clarinet – delisted May 2022

New articles

Please feel free to list your new Musical Instruments-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Page.

Musical Instrument Bank November 2023
Keleli May 2023
Molo May 2023
Gurmi May 2023
Garaya May 2023
Alfred A. Farland April 2023
Samuel Swaim Stewart April 2023
Arched harp March 2023
Joseph Friedrich Bernhard Caspar Majer February 2023
Bülban February 2023
Chazozra December 2022
Nafir December 2022
Persian musical instruments (major overhaul, Nov-Dec 2022)
Qairaq (December 2022)
Bohemian harp (December 2022)
Zang (bell) (November 2022)
Dammam (drum) (November 2022)
Streichmelodion (November 2022), featured on DYK
Violinzither (November 2022)
Guide-chant (November 2022)
Shahrud (November 2022), rewritten for copyvio
Almpfeiferl (November 2022)
Harmoneon (October 2022)
Orthotonophonium (October 2022)
Martinshorn (October 2022)
Hirtenschalmei (October 2022) (rewritten)
Simbing (October 2022)
Angular harp (October 2022)
Maghreb rebab (October 2022)
Frame zither (October 2022)
Ancient Greek harps (October 2022)
Yamaha CP-70 (August 2022)
Precision Bass Lyte (December 2021)
Gourd mouth organ (May 2021)
Kinnari vina (May 2021)
Alpini vina and eka-tantri vina (April 2021)
Pinaka vina (April 2021)
Trough zither (February 2021)
Keluri (February 2021)
Zane Beck (February 2021)
Lap steel guitar (February 2021, completely rewritten)
Tifa (drum) (February 2021)
Tifa totobuang (February 2021)
Hugu (instrument) (January 2021)
Noel Boggs(January 2021)
Donali (January 2021)
Dozaleh (January 2021)
Bud Isaacs(January 2021)
Yelatáj chos woley (musical bow) (December 2020)
Bar zither (December 2020)
Yak (instrument) (December 2020)
Bamboo flute (November 2020)
Tyamko (November 2020)
Aarbajo (November 2020)
Raft zither (November 2020)
List of Nepali musical instruments (November 2020) Completely re-done
Tube zither (October 2020)
Sneng (July 2019)
Russell Collection (March 2017)
Raymond Russell (organologist) (March 2017)
Traditional violin craftsmanship in Cremona (February 2017)

Collaboration and review

Collaboration of the week

Peer review

Assessment

Earl MacDonald
Please feel free to assess my newly expanded Gourd mouth organ. Thank you very much! Ryssian (talk)

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Templates

Template page (a collection of templates)

By region

{{Asian musical instruments}}
{{Music of Asia}}
- {{Burmese musical instruments}}
- {{Cambodian musical instruments}}
- {{Traditional Chinese musical instruments}}
- {{Indian musical instruments}}
- {{Gamelan}} Indonesia
- {{Iranian musical instruments}}
- {{Japanese musical instruments}}
  - {{Fue}}
- {{Traditional Laotian musical instruments}}
- {{Traditional musical instruments of Malaysia}}
- {{Musical instruments of Nepal}}
- {{Music of the Philippines}}
  - {{S Filipino instruments}}
- {{Thai musical instruments}}
- {{Turkish musical instruments}}
- {{Vietnamese musical instruments}}
{{Arabic musical instruments}}

Morphology

{{Hornbostel-Sachs instruments}}
{{Instruments}}
- {{Woodwinds}}
  - {{Recorders}}
- {{Brass}}
- {{String instruments}}
- {{Percussion}}
  - {{Lamellophones}}
  - {{Plucked idiophones}}
{{Squeezebox}}
{{Infobox Instrument}}

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