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

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