Music glossary
Harmonicello
A
baritone like instrument with five playing strings made of gut and ten
sympathetic strings made of wire.
Harp
A
large upright roughly triangular musical
instrument consisting of a frame housing a
graduated series of vertical strings, played
by plucking with the fingers. Heavy metal
A type of highly-amplified rock music with
a strong beat. Hip-hop
A music style that includes rapping and
break dancing. It originated in the South Bronx section of New York City around the mid 1970s. Horn
A wind instrument played by lip vibration,
originally made of horn now usually of brass.
Hurdy-gurdy
Traditional European instrument with strings sounded by a rotating
wheel.
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