idiophone
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- noun
- /ˈɪdiəˌfoʊn/
- Specialized
:
idiófono
- In many cultures, the xylophone is classified as an idiophone due to its body vibrating to create music.
Examples
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The marimba is an idiophone that produces sound when wooden bars are struck with mallets.
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The gong, an idiophone, is usually struck in the middle, about halfway between the center and the rim.
Academic text (1990) -
The "torso" is hollowed out so that it forms an idiophone that can be played by beating the cylinder with a round stick.
Academic text (2004) -
Also meaning "quick-quick," it extends the style of kia-kia, fula-fula, and related idiophones of immediate action.
Academic text (1996) -
The second task was for the students to categorize their instrument as a membranophone, a chordophone, an aerophone, or an idiophone.
Academic text (1990) -
Drums are typically not idiophones, because they rely on membranes, unlike true idiophones that sound from their own material.
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Morphology
idiophone = idio + phone
The structure is regular as a classical compound meaning 'self-sounding', but the parts are bound combining forms rather than familiar standalone English words.
Etymology
Idiophone comes from the Greek parts idio- meaning 'own' and -phone meaning 'sound', the same -phone you see in telephone. So an idiophone is an instrument that makes its 'own sound' by vibrating its body, not by strings or a skin.