This is a list of instruments by Hornbostel-Sachs number, covering those instruments that are classified under 314.122 under that system (box zithers). These instruments are board zithers that use slats as resonators.
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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Aeolian harp æolian harp, wind harp |
314.122 | Box zither placed near a window so that wind stimulates the strings | |
chakhe[1][2][3] charakhe, jakhe, ja-khe, krapeu, takhe, takkhe |
Cambodia, Thailand | 314.122-6[4] | Fretted zither with three strings that are plucked with a plectrum |
cimbalom[5] czimbalom, cymbalom, cymbalum, ţambal, tsymbaly, tsimbl, santouri, santur |
Hungary | 314.122-4 | Chromatic hammered dulcimer with four legs |
gusli[6] |
Russia | 314.122-5 | Zither-like instrument with between eleven and thirty-six strings, tuned diatonically |
kanklės[7] kankliai, kunkliai, kunklaliai, kanklos, kanklys, kanklus, kunkl, kankalai[8] |
Lithuania | 314.122-5 | Stringed instrument |
kannel[7] |
Estonia | 314.122-5 | Stringed instrument |
kantele[9][10][11][12][13] |
Finland | 314.122-5 | Zither-harp, traditionally with five strings, now with up to thirty, held in the lap |
kokles[14] kokle[14] kūkles, kūkļas, kūkļes, kūklis, kūkļis, kūkle, kūkļe, kūkla and kūkļa (in Latgale)[14] |
Latvia and Latvian-Americans[15] | 314.122-5[14] | Diatonic, lute-like string instrument |
langeleik[13] |
Norway | 314.122 | Rectangular zither with five to nine strings, one melody string and several drone strings |
santur[16] |
Iran | 314.122-4 | Hammered dulcimer, trapezoidal-shaped with 72 strings and two sets of bridges, hit with mallets |
yangqin[17] yang ch'in, yang qin |
China | 314.122-4 | Hammered dulcimer, with a trapezoidal sounding board and traditionally bronze strings, struck with rubber-tipped bamboo hammers |
zither[18][19] Volkszither |
Bavaria | 314.122 | Stringed instrument with a soundbox, with strings stretched across it, originally with four melody strings and no more than fifteen accompaniment strings
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A wooden stringed instrument, similar to the zither, is considered a "national" instrument for all three countries. The Estonian kannel, the Latvian kokles, and the Lithuanian kankles, though similar in design, have distinctive styles.
(T)he kantele is an essential part of the power of (the Kalevala and thus became), in the 19th century, the Finns' national instrument.
(Researchers) have run a long-term campaign to introduce the kantele, which has been branded the national instrument of Finland, into every school.
Its revival was initiated (among Latvian-Americans in the United States) in the 1930s by Latvian folklorists, who claimed it to be their true national instrument.
The zither may be considered the national instrument of Bavaria