{
 "source": "https://peabody.kids/flashcards/music-world-instruments",
 "id": "music-world-instruments",
 "title": "Instruments Around the World",
 "category": "arts-music",
 "subject": "Music",
 "levels": [
  "3-5",
  "6-8",
  "9-12"
 ],
 "description": "Traditional instruments and where they come from.",
 "tags": [
  "world music",
  "instruments",
  "cultures"
 ],
 "frontLabel": "Instrument",
 "backLabel": "Where from and what it is",
 "cards": [
  [
   "Sitar",
   "India; plucked string instrument with a long neck"
  ],
  [
   "Tabla",
   "India; pair of hand drums"
  ],
  [
   "Tanpura",
   "India; stringed instrument that plays a steady drone"
  ],
  [
   "Sarod",
   "India; plucked fretless string instrument"
  ],
  [
   "Erhu",
   "China; two-stringed bowed instrument"
  ],
  [
   "Pipa",
   "China; plucked lute with four strings"
  ],
  [
   "Guzheng",
   "China; long plucked zither"
  ],
  [
   "Gong",
   "Southeast Asia and China; hanging metal disc struck with a mallet"
  ],
  [
   "Gamelan",
   "Indonesia; ensemble of tuned gongs and metal instruments"
  ],
  [
   "Koto",
   "Japan; long zither with 13 strings"
  ],
  [
   "Shamisen",
   "Japan; three-stringed plucked instrument"
  ],
  [
   "Shakuhachi",
   "Japan; bamboo flute"
  ],
  [
   "Taiko",
   "Japan; big drums"
  ],
  [
   "Gayageum",
   "Korea; plucked zither"
  ],
  [
   "Didgeridoo",
   "Australia; long wooden wind instrument of Aboriginal peoples"
  ],
  [
   "Djembe",
   "West Africa; goblet-shaped hand drum"
  ],
  [
   "Kora",
   "West Africa; 21-stringed instrument with a gourd body"
  ],
  [
   "Balafon",
   "West Africa; wooden xylophone with gourd resonators"
  ],
  [
   "Mbira (thumb piano)",
   "Southern Africa; metal tines plucked with thumbs"
  ],
  [
   "Talking drum",
   "West Africa; hourglass-shaped drum that can imitate speech"
  ],
  [
   "Shekere",
   "West Africa; gourd with beads around it"
  ],
  [
   "Oud",
   "Middle East; pear-shaped plucked lute"
  ],
  [
   "Darbuka",
   "Middle East; goblet drum"
  ],
  [
   "Ney",
   "Middle East; end-blown reed flute"
  ],
  [
   "Qanun",
   "Middle East; plucked zither with many strings"
  ],
  [
   "Bagpipes",
   "Scotland; wind instrument with a bag and drones"
  ],
  [
   "Uilleann pipes",
   "Ireland; bagpipes played with bellows"
  ],
  [
   "Bodhran",
   "Ireland; frame drum played with a stick"
  ],
  [
   "Tin whistle",
   "Ireland; simple six-hole flute"
  ],
  [
   "Fiddle",
   "Violin used in folk music"
  ],
  [
   "Accordion",
   "Europe; instrument with bellows and keys or buttons"
  ],
  [
   "Balalaika",
   "Russia; triangular three-stringed lute"
  ],
  [
   "Hurdy-gurdy",
   "Europe; string instrument played by turning a crank"
  ],
  [
   "Alphorn",
   "Switzerland; very long wooden horn"
  ],
  [
   "Zither",
   "Alps and Europe; flat stringed instrument"
  ],
  [
   "Bouzouki",
   "Greece; long-necked plucked lute"
  ],
  [
   "Mandolin",
   "Italy; small plucked instrument with paired strings"
  ],
  [
   "Castanets",
   "Spain; wooden clappers"
  ],
  [
   "Flamenco guitar",
   "Spain; guitar used in flamenco music"
  ],
  [
   "Maracas",
   "Latin America and Caribbean; shaken rattles"
  ],
  [
   "Guiro",
   "Caribbean and Latin America; notched gourd scraped with a stick"
  ],
  [
   "Conga",
   "Cuba; tall narrow drum"
  ],
  [
   "Bongos",
   "Cuba; pair of small hand drums"
  ],
  [
   "Steelpan (steel drum)",
   "Trinidad and Tobago; tuned drum made from an oil barrel"
  ],
  [
   "Cuatro",
   "Puerto Rico and Venezuela; small four-stringed guitar"
  ],
  [
   "Charango",
   "Andes; small guitar-like instrument, traditionally with an armadillo-shell body"
  ],
  [
   "Pan flute (zampona)",
   "Andes; tubes tied together and blown across the tops"
  ],
  [
   "Quena",
   "Andes; notched end-blown flute"
  ],
  [
   "Marimba",
   "Central America and Africa; wooden xylophone with resonators"
  ],
  [
   "Ukulele",
   "Hawaii; small four-stringed guitar"
  ],
  [
   "Banjo",
   "United States; round-bodied string instrument with African roots"
  ],
  [
   "Dobro",
   "United States; guitar with a metal resonator"
  ],
  [
   "Native American flute",
   "North America; wooden flute with a soft, airy sound"
  ],
  [
   "Powwow drum",
   "North America; large drum played by a group"
  ],
  [
   "Harp",
   "Played in many places; plucked strings in a triangular frame"
  ],
  [
   "Lyre",
   "Ancient Greece; small harp-like instrument"
  ],
  [
   "Hang drum",
   "Switzerland, invented in 2000; steel instrument played with hands"
  ],
  [
   "Theremin",
   "Russia, invented in the 1920s; electronic instrument played without touching"
  ],
  [
   "Cajon",
   "Peru; box-shaped drum you sit on"
  ],
  [
   "Berimbau",
   "Brazil; bow-shaped single-string instrument"
  ],
  [
   "Bandoneon",
   "Argentina and Germany; button accordion used in tango"
  ],
  [
   "Duduk",
   "Armenia; double-reed wooden flute"
  ],
  [
   "Kalimba",
   "Africa; modern name for a thumb piano"
  ]
 ]
}