Catalog

The FN-Base catalog documents the Swiss sound heritage (Helvetica) preserved in our archives. The following types of search are possible:

Search by instrument

IDIOPHONES

• Struck idiophones
• Plucked idiophones
• Friction idiophones
• Blown idiophones
• Metal sheets

MEMBRANOPHONES

• Struck drums
• Plucked drums
• Friction drums
• Singing membranes

CHORDOPHONES

• Simple chordophones or zithers
• Composite chordophones

AEROPHONES

• Free aerophones
• True wind instruments

ELECTROPHONES

• Electro-acoustic instruments and devices
• Electromechanical instruments and devices
• Analogue electronic instruments, modules and components
• Digital instruments, modules and components
• Hybrid analogue/digital configurations
• Software

VOICES

• Solo voices
• Choral voices

Hornbostel-Sachs is a system of musical instrument classification devised by Erich von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs and first published in 1914.
It was updated in 2011 as part of the work of the Musical Instrument Museums Online (MIMO) Project.

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