This is a list of instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number, covering those instruments that are classified under 312.22 under that system. These instruments are single-stringed heterochord musical bows with an attached resonator and a tuning noose.
These instruments may be classified with a suffix, based on how the strings are caused to vibrate.
Instrument | Tradition | Hornbostel–Sachs classification | Description |
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ajaeng 아쟁, 牙箏 |
Korea | 312.22 | Half-tube zither with seven silk strings, played with a piece of forsythia wood |
Đàn tranh 檀箏 |
Vietnam | 312.22 | Wooden-bodied and steel-stringed zither |
gayageum[1][2] kayagum, kayago, kayagŭm, 가야금, 伽倻琴 |
Korea | 312.22-5 | zither-like string instrument, with 12 strings. |
geomungo komungo, kŏmun'go, hyeongeum, hyongum, hyŏn'gŭm |
Korea | 312.22 | Fretted zither |
guqin |
China | 312.22 | |
guzheng [3] zheng, gu-zheng |
China | 312.22-5 | Half-tube zither, rectangular with three sound holes on the bottom, now with twenty-one strings most typically, pentatonic tuning, strings are plucked by hand |
koto[4] |
Japan | 312.22 | Long and hollow thirteen-stringed instrument |
koto, 17-string |
Japan | 312.22 | 17-stringed koto |
se |
China | 312.22 | Ancient plucked instrument |
yazheng ya zheng, ya cheng |
China | 312.22 |
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As the most popular national instrument in China, zheng (also known as gu-zheng) is one of the eldest Chinese string instruments with a history of at least 2,500 years.