| 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
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| 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 |
