Digital Hornbostel & Sachs Classification of Musical Instruments

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Idiophones > Struck idiophones > Indirectly struck idiophones > Shaking idiophones or rattles > Vessel rattles

Preferred term

Vessel rattles  

Definition

  • Rattling objects enclosed in a vessel strike against each other or against the walls of the vessel, or usually against both. NB The Benue gourd rattles with handle, in which the rattling objects, instead of being enclosed, are knotted into a net slipped over the outer surface, count as a variety of vessel rattle.

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • HS-112.13

Example

  • Fruchtkapseln mit Samenkörnern, "Schellen" mit frei eingeschlossenen Anschlagkügelchen.
  • Fruit shells with seeds, 'pellet bells' enclosing loose percussion pellets.

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https://vocabs.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/hsinstruments/11213

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