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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
[edit source]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
[edit source]{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Musical Instruments/To do}} To do
Participants
[edit source]{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Musical Instruments/Membership}} Membership
Articles
[edit source]Featured content
[edit source]- 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
[edit source]- None
Former featured articles
[edit source]Good articles
[edit source]- 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
- Ophicleide - listed July 2025
- Soprillo - listed September 2025
- Euphonium - listed November 2025
Nominated
[edit source]- Tenor horn - nominated November 2025
Former Good articles
[edit source]- 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
[edit source]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.
- Guitarra séptima November 2025.
- Rotte (lyre) April 2025 (merged two articles and expanded)
- Tibia (reedpipe) March 2025
- Cymbalum March 2025
- Hot fountain pen October 2024
- Rotte (psaltery) October 2024
- 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
[edit source]- Earl MacDonald
- Please feel free to assess my newly expanded Gourd mouth organ. Thank you very much! Ryssian (talk)
Templates
[edit source]Template page (a collection of templates)
By region
[edit source]- {{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}}
- {{Thai musical instruments}}
- {{Turkish musical instruments}}
- {{Vietnamese musical instruments}}
- {{Arabic musical instruments}}
Morphology
[edit source]- {{Hornbostel-Sachs instruments}}
- {{Instruments}}
- {{Percussion}}
- {{Plucked idiophones}} (lamellophones)
- {{Percussion}}
- {{Squeezebox}}
- {{Infobox Instrument}}
Project templates
- {{Musical-instrument-stub}}
- {{WPMusInst}}
- {{User WPMusInst}}
Userboxes
[edit source]There are userboxes for members, which adds them to Category:WikiProject Musical Instruments participants. To add the userbox of your choice to your user page, use this template with these options. The full instructions and documentation are on the userbox documentation page.
- {{User WPMusInst}}
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- {{User WPMusInst |guest=yes}}
| [[Image:|45px|WikiProject Musical Instruments]] | This user is an honoured guest of WikiProject Musical Instruments. |
- {{User WPMusInst |family=brass}}
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- {{User WPMusInst |family=keyboards}}
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- {{User WPMusInst |family=percussion}}
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- {{User WPMusInst |family=strings}}
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- {{User WPMusInst |family=woodwinds}}
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- {{User WPMusInst |family=violin}}
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Lists
[edit source]- List of musical instruments
- List of folk music traditions with subpages listing instruments
- List of Caribbean drums
- List of archaic musical instruments - this one needs attention
- List of membranophones
- Traditional Chinese musical instruments
- Traditional Japanese musical instruments
- Traditional Korean musical instruments
- Traditional Vietnamese musical instruments
- List of string instruments
- List of musical instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number
Categories
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References
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