Category talk:Musical instruments

Combine Musical instrument makers and Musical instrument manufacturers

These categories are essentially the same. It would be good to have a separate category of Musical instrument suppliers, which doesn't exist at the moment Bishop pam 02:43, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Promote Wind instruments or demote other subcats?

Hoy, hoy! If "Brass instruments" is a subcategory, how come "Wind instruments" isn't? Somebody who's a music wonk want to work on these subcat/page sorts? --Here.it.comes.again 05:32, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes, The human voice is an instrument!

Given todays standards for singers of popular music it is quite understandable why the general American population may not imediatley recognize the human voice as a musical instrument. However, in the shadow of what I personally conceive to be an epidemic of talentless "artists" (though there is a good handfull who I feel live up to the bars raised by popular artists of past decades) are millions of ignored singers of styles such as jazz in all of it's unique forms and classical vocal music who must study and, in the case of the later, grow into an instrument that if not handled properly will be destroyed by the age of thirty. I myself am an 18 yr old soprano (so forgive me if my opinions seem overly biased) and thus have about another 18 years of studying before being fit to hold my own against the stiff competition out there. My point is that while we singers don't buy our instruments from a dealer, or change reeds, or replace strings we study hard, we love our music, and we practice just as much as any instrumentalist (in the traditional sense of the word). We love to be given the credit that we individually deserve, not only for the beauty of our voices and the solidity of our technique but also as musicians who study, practice, and express the emotions involved in a piece for effective and memorable performances. 74.229.62.99 23:45, 31 July 2006 (UTC) Anonymous

"Chordophones" vs. "String Instruments"

There seems to be quite a stick mess with the issue of the term "Chordophone". The category exists, with essentially no articles of its own which can't be just as easily filed under "Stringed Instrument" subcats. Its only subcats are "Stringed Instruments" itself, and "Composite String Instruments", which has a nearly 1:1 concurrence with the "Harps" subcat.

Should we just moved "Stringed Instruments" into the "Musical Instruments" subcategories and do away with "Chordophones" entirely? It seems, at present, to hold no particular use. MatthewVanitas (talk) 17:52, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Clearing out the clutter from "Musical Instruments"

Further, the vast majority of articles sitting in the "MI" category already fall under one or more subcategories. Yes, they are musical instruments, but there's no need to file them in every single sub-cat from "Music" to "Musical Instruments" to "String Instruments" to "Zithers" to "Box Zithers" etc. ad infinitum.

Is anyone going to put up a huge fuss if I go through and move the categorizable articles into their appropriate categories? There are currently [b]172 articles[/b] outside of the subcategories, many of which are redundantly listed in the subcategories anyway. MatthewVanitas (talk) 17:52, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Okay, it took about 3 hours, but I've got it down to 49 articles, and I can do most of the rest later. If folks want to start moving into the subcats and subcategorizing articles further, that'd be great. I tried to subcat as far as possible, but I wasn't totally sure on how far back to subcat some articles. Category is tidier now though. MatthewVanitas (talk) 19:52, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Fictional, Unknown, Lost Instruments?

I created a trial category called "Fictional instruments", but I'm thinking that it might be better to have a catch-all category for instruments which have been referenced in text, but which we don't know what they are. Some fictional instruments, others that are mentioned in ancient texts but not specified enough to identify, etc. Any ideas what to call such a category? Cryptorganology? (like Cryptozoology, but with instruments). MatthewVanitas (talk) 12:39, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Structure

The category (and subcategories) are looking really good. Badagnani (talk) 20:00, 16 April 2008 (UTC)