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Many kinds of musical instruments can be used to play [[microtonal music]], ranging from non-microtonal instruments (i.e. designed to be played in [[12edo]]) to custom-designed xenharmonic instruments.
Many kinds of musical instruments can be used to play [[microtonal music]], ranging from non-microtonal instruments (i.e. designed to be played in [[12edo]]) to custom-designed xenharmonic instruments.


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The following is a non-exhaustive list of instruments which can be used to play xenharmonic music. You can find additional information by following the links to each instrument's dedicated page.
The following is a non-exhaustive list of instruments which can be used to play xenharmonic music. You can find additional information by following the links to each instrument's dedicated page.


== String instruments ==
== Winds ==
=== Plucked strings ===
* [[Bassoon]]
* Fretted:
* [[Clarinet]]
**[[Guitar]]
* [[Flugelhorn]]
** [[Electric bass]]
* [[Flute]]
**[[Pedal steel guitar]]
* [[Harmonica]]
**[[Fun With Microtones|Ukulele]]
* [[Horn]]
** Others: banjo, mandolin, balalaika, sitar, [[Wikipedia:Moodswinger|moodswinger]], etc.
* [[Infinitone]]
* Fretless:
* [[Recorder]]
**[[Autoharp]]
* [[Saxophone]]
** [[Electric bass|Fretless bass]]
* [[Shakuhachi]]
** [[Qanun]]
* [[Trombone]]
** Others: oud, harp, zither, hammer dulcimer, [[Wikipedia:Đàn bầu|đàn bầu]], etc.
* [[Trumpet]]
* [[Tuba]]
* [[Udderbot]]
* [[Whistle]]


=== Bowed strings ===
== Percussion ==
* Fretted:
* [[Bells]]
** [[Viol family]] (viola da gamba, violone (some types), etc.)
* [[Conic Bellophone in 96edo|Conic bellophone]]
* Fretless:
* [[Daxophone]]
** [[Bowed strings|Violin family]] (violin, viola, cello, bass, violone (some types), etc.)
* [[Kalimba]]
** Others: [[Wikipedia:Huqin|huqin]], etc.
* [[Marimba]]
* [[Tubulong]]


== Wind instruments ==
== Keyboards ==
=== Brass instruments ===
{{Main| Keyboard }}
*[[Horn]]
* [[Trumpet]]
* [[Trombone]]
* Others: tuba, digeridoo, alphorn, etc.


=== Woodwind instruments ===
* [[Fluid piano]]
* Reedless:
* [[Piano]]
** [[Flute]]
** [[Recorder]]
** [[Whistle]]
** Others: khaen, etc.
* Reed:
**[[Bassoon]]
** [[Clarinet]]
** [[Harmonica]]
**[[Saxophone]]
** Others: oboe, reed organ, accordion, melodica, etc.


=== Others ===
== Strings ==
* [http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/oddmusic/message/17051 Balloon flute]{{dead link}}
* [[Autoharp]]
* [[Infinitone]]
* [[Bowed strings]]
* [[Udderbot]]
* [[Electric bass]]
* [[Guitar]]
* [[Harp]]
* [[Harpejji]]
* [[Pedal steel guitar]]
* [[Qanun]]
* [[Ukulele]]


== Percussion instruments ==
== Electronics ==
* Mallet keyboards:
* [[Moog Subharmonicon]]
** [[Marimba]]
* [[SOMA Terra]]
** Others: vibraphone, xylophone, glockenspiel, crotales, lithophone, etc.
* [[Verbos Harmonic Oscillator]]
* Tuned drums: timpani, rototoms, pat waing, etc.
* Bells:
**[[Conic Bellophone in 96edo|Conic bellophone]]
** [http://www.ekmelic-music.org/en/instr/kk.htm Sound tower/sound cube]
**[[Tubulong]]
**[[Zoomoozophone]]
** Others: carillon, amglocken, handbells, etc.
* Lamellophones:
** [[Kalimba (mbira)]], marimbula
* Friction idiophones:
** [[Daxophone]]
** Others: musical saw, wine glasses, nail violin, etc.
* [[Keyboard]]s: piano, harpsichord, organ, clavichord
 
== Electronic instruments ==
* [[Infinitone]]
* [[Software]], [[DAWs]], [[List of Microtonal Software Plugins|plugins]]
* Synthesizers:
**[[Lumatone]]
** Others: see [[Keyboard#List of generalized keyboards]]
* [[Wikipedia:Theremin|Theremin]]
* Web browser-based on-screen keyboards:
** [[User:SAKryukov#Microtonal Fabric|“Microtonal Fabric” family]]
** ReTuner: [https://www.facebook.com/retuner on facebook], [https://encyclotronic.com/apps/microtonal/retuner-r24 on Encyclotronic]


== Tuning-agnostic instruments ==
== See also ==
These instruments can play in any microtonal scale out-of-the-box, because 12edo is not a part of their manufacture:
* [[List of xenharmonic fixed pitch instruments]]
* [[List of microtonal hardware synths]]
* [[:Category:Instruments]]


*[[Daxophone]]
== Further reading ==
* Fretless string instruments
* Hugh Davies/Alexander Bonus, [https://archive.org/details/grovedictionaryo0003unse_w4m2/page/459/ Microtonal instruments]. The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments, Second Edition, 2014. Volume Three, page 459.
** Fretless bass
* [https://archive.org/details/emi_archive/ Experimental Musical Instruments] journal
** Fretless guitar
* Fletcher and Rossing, [https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~pbarfuss/The_Physics_of_Musical_Instruments.pdf The Physics of Musical Instruments]. Springer-Verlag, 1991
** Oud
** Violin, viola, cello, double bass (the string quartet is a whole tuning-agnostic ensemble)
* Musical saw
* String instruments with one pitch per string
** Hammered dulcimer
*[[Wikipedia:Theremin|Theremin]]
* Wind instruments with a slide or other continuous pitch control
** Trombone
**[[Udderbot]]


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