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On Line Music Dictionary - Letter Y

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Our heartfelt thanks to Dr. Brian Blood at Dolmetsch Online
for allowing us to reproduce his musical dictionary.

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Yaogu	Chinese temple or flower drum
Yambú	one of the three most popular forms of Cuban rumba
Yang Qin	Chinese hammered dulcimer played with two bamboo mallets
Yanggum	Korean hammered dulcimer, derived from European dulcimers
Yaraki	Aboriginal term for the didjeridu
Yarghul	Palestinian drone and chanter double-pipe
Yasl-khani	improvised songs of humor and satire from Bushehr (Iran)
Yataga	Mongolian zither, on which the strings are plucked, constructed as a box with a convex surface and an end bent towards the ground. It is more complex than most of its counterparts. In the past it was a court instrument and the strings symbolized the levels of the palace hierarchy
Yatga	see yataga
Yayue	(Chinese) Chinese ritual music, some of which has survived in manuscript
Yidaki	didjeridu
Yidaqui	didjeridu
Yodel	(English) Tyrolean singing style where the performer alternates frequently between the natural chest voice and falsetto tones
Yoik	archaic Sami mode of unaccompanied solo singing (Sweden and Norway)
Yomkwo	a raft zither from the Birom people of Nigeria, made from a number of reeds bound together to form a raft and from which the strings are formed more...
Yotsutake	Japanese bamboo clappers
Youyou	Arabian heavy drum played only by women
Yovoringo	a Mandinka wrestling rhythm
Yü	(Chinese) a Chinese scraper, used in Confucian temple workship, carved in the shape of a tiger, the sound of which is produced by scraping it with a split bamboo stick
Yüeh ch‘in, Yue qin	(Chinese) a Chinese mandolin, with a moon-shaped soundbox (hence its alternative name Moon mandolin although the soundbox can be octagonal or hexagonal), and similar to the long-necked ruan with 2 strings normally tuned a 4th or 5th apart, to which two additional strings can be added, tuned in unison with the other 2 strings creating 2 courses, commonly used to accompany performances such as operas and narratives; also known as sixian, moon lute, Chinese lute, moon guitar or moon violin
Yuka	long cylindrical drums of Congolese origin
Yun-lo	Chinese cloud gong, ten small gongs of different pitches suspended in a wooden frame
Yurupari	ritual dance of the Indians of the Brazilian Amazon basin, said to protect the young male dancers against feminine seduction