Hornbostel–Sachs or Sachs–Hornbostel is a system of musical instrument classification devised by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs, and first...

The Hornbostel–Sachs system categorizes musical instruments by how they make sound. It divides instruments into five groups: idiophones, membranophones...

composition, size, role, etc. However, the most common academic method, Hornbostel–Sachs, uses the means by which they produce sound. The academic study of...

divisions of instruments in the original Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification. According to Sachs, The sound is produced by a membrane...

Hornbostel the Hornbostel–Sachs scheme of instrument classification, which was first published in 1914 in the Zeitschrift für Ethnologie(Hornbostel–Sachs)...

The most widely used classification system for musical instruments, Hornbostel–Sachs, takes this approach. Musical usage, in particular the traditional...

and is most often known as the Hornbostel–Sachs system (or the Sachs–Hornbostel system). The original Sachs–Hornbostel system classified instruments into...

celestial bodies. Hornbostel–Sachs is a system of musical instrument classification devised by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs, and first published...

The Hornbostel–Sachs system of musical instrument classification defines idiophones as all instruments in which sound is produced primarily by way of the...

Among his contributions was the Hornbostel–Sachs system, which he created with Erich von Hornbostel. Born in Berlin, Sachs studied piano, music theory and...