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World Musical Instruments Korea are a large single facility manufacturer of a huge variety of guitar models for internationally known brands such as PRS, Chapman and LTD.

WMIC (as they are often styled) are based out of Incheon, South Korea and have a gigantic facility that is considered one of the “last standing” Korean guitar manufacturers.

But what brands are made there? Let’s take a look.

What is WMIC’s reputation?

While it is surprisingly hard to get actual company information or history for World Musical Instruments Korea, what we can say is they have been making guitars for decades, and as with most Korean manufacturers, they have a reputation for having above average quality.

In his 2016 “who makes who” video about guitar manufacturers, Phil McKnight described WMIC as “the biggie for quality”.

What’s nice about (WMIC) is they don’t make anything cheap. They don’t make any student-grade instruments. They make good stuff, and that’s how they keep that (quality going). That’s just how it goes.

Quality Variations Across Brands

So how does WMIC make so many guitars for different brands at different price points and not have them come out the same?

Typically when a company partners with a manufacturer to produce instruments for them, they not only provide the plans for the guitars themselves, they also agree to a large number of manufacturing standards.

For one example, companies will agree how often the CNC machine is reset – this would mean the reset button is pressed and the cutter moves back to coordinates 0, 0, 0 on the X, Y and Z axis. The reason you would want to do this is that no machine is infallible, and over time the machine can get slightly out of alignment, at which point it’s no longer cutting in the exact right sports.

Say company 1 wants the CNC reset once ever hour, while company 2 wants it reset once a day. Both of these have associated costs, both of these effect the total number of guitars can be output in the course of the day, both of these will have different effects on the maintanence schedule of the machine etc etc.

Therefore, you may find the cheaper brand, who reset the machine less often, have slightly worse quality than the company that have the machine reset regularly.

There are a host of these small agreements that will have an effect on both the price and quality of the output. Do they want the frets glued or just pressed? Do they want them dressed on site? Do they want cheap or expensive internal wiring?

All of these small manufacturing details agreed upon have a total effect on the final product.

Final QC in the US

Another huge difference is that many guitars go through a final QC process once they get to the US.

For example, PRS set up all of their SE line at their factory in the US before they go out to stores and ultimately customers. One step removed from that is Chapman who famously have their guitars QC’d by the stores that buy them to sell them to customers. Finally, you have a company like Rondo who ship their Agile guitars to customers without any QC – and this of course is reflected in the price.

As you can see, there are a host of variables that go into why one factory in South Korea can make such a wide range of guitars that hit so many price points, and ultimately give the final consumer such a wide range of playing and quality experiences.

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A caveat regarding the list

First off, it is quite difficult to pin down what brands are being manufactured by WMIC at any one time.

The list of brands under contract is not something that’s generally put out into the public domain, and at times even the manufacturer might not know if a brand has moved on to another facility for a given model or if they’re still just selling from a backlog of old stock.

It’s also the case that a brand may have certain models manufactured in multiple factories due to parts or wood availability etc.

As such, that means that a list like this is always a moving target – but here’s the best we can say at the time of writing!

Guitar Brands with Models Manufactured by World Musical Instruments Korea

• Agile
• BC Rich
• Brian May Guitars
• Chapman
• Dean
• Diamond/DBZ
• Eastwood
• Gretsch (Electromatics)
• Guild (Newark St. models)
• Ibanez (small number of models with W serial)
• Line6
• LTD
• Michael Kelly Guitars
• Ormsby (GTR line)
• PRS SE (now mostly moved to Cor‐Tek in Indonesia)
• Schecter
• Strandberg (until mid 2017)
• Wylde Audio (sub-brand of Schecter)

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The Future Of World Musical Instruments Korea

In a July 2019 interview with Music Radar, PRS’s COO Jack Higginbotham revealed that they had moved most of their SE line from Korea to the Cor‐Tek (Cort) facilities in Indonesia.

The draw for PRS was that, instead of WMIC’s facility where many different guitars by many different brands are made under one roof, Cort had a facility that was 100% dedicated to only PRS SE guitars.

To have our own building where I know the guy who makes the necks or the bodies, I know the guy who sets the neck angles and glues them together and they’re going to do that every day – they’re not going to switch to making a Hagstrom the next day, or an ESP, or whatever. We now have a focus on our guitars that previously was never able to happen. 

Ultimately, Higginbotham said that the mix of dedication to PRS’s guitars as well as the more favourable economics of moving from Korea to Indonesia meant WMIC’s time with PRS is likely coming to an end.

We still have some SE guitars made in Korea, but will it always be that way? Economics say probably not.

However, WMIC still have a wide range of brands that turn to them for their consistency and quality, as well as their willingness to create small batches of as little as 50 guitars – a huge coup for fledgling guitar brands.

Long may it continue.

A. Strings

1. violin  2. viola   3. cello   4. bass

5. (acoustic) guitar   6. ukulele   7. electric guitar   8. banjo   9. mandolin
10. harp

Stings

1.bow 2.violin 3.viola 4.(double) bass 5.cello 6.piano

B. Woodwinds

11. piccolo  12. flute  13. clarinet  14. oboe
15. recorder  16. saxophone  17. bassoon

Woodwinds

11.flute 12.piccolo 13.oboe 14.recorder 15.clarinet 16.saxophone 17. bassoon

Woodwind

piccolo, flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, double

C. Brass

18. trumpet   19. trombone   20. French horn  21. tuba

Brass

7.French horn 8.tuba 9.trumpet 10.trombone

Brass

trumpet, trombone, French horn, tuba

D. Percussion

22. drum  23. kettledrum   24. bongos
25. conga (drum)  26. cymbals  27. xylophone

Percussion

18.xylophone 19.drum set 20.cymbal 21.drum

Percussion

kettledrum , gong, bongos, snare drum, cymbals, tambourine, trialgle, maracas

E. Keyboard Instruments

28. piano   29. organ  30. electric piano/ digital piano  31. synthesizer

F. Other Instruments

32. accordion   33. harmonica

Other instruments

22.accordion 23.harmonica

Rock Music

24. mike/microphone 25.(electric) guitar 26. (bass) guitar
27.keybord 28.anplifier

vibraphone, saxophone

ORCHESTRA

Woodwind: flute, Percussion, kettledrums Brass: French horn,
violin, harp, piano, Strings, conductor

Symphony orchesta

Woodwind section 1.bass clarinet 2.clarinets 3.contrabassoons 4. bassoons 5. flutes
6. oboes 7.piccolo 8.English horns
Percussion section 9. bubular bells 10.xylophone 11. triangle
12.castanets 13.cymbals 14.snare drum 15.gong 16.bass drum 17.rimpani
Bass section 18.trumpets 19.comet 20.trombones 21.tuba 22.French homs
Sring section 23.first violins 24.second violins 25.violas 26.cellos 27.double basses
28.harps 29.piano 30.conductor’s podium

Orchestra Strings

harp, conductor, double bass, violin, podium , viola, cello

trumpet, tuba, tambourine, saxophone, recorder, violin

harmonica, xylophone, guitar, castanets, cymbals, accordion

picano, flute, triangle, drum

singing, play the violin, playing the saxophone, playing the guitar

Music and Musicians

guitarist, acoustic guitar, drummer, drums, amplifier

Rock Band

microphone, singer, bass guitarist, bass guitar, electric guitar,
keyboard, keyboardist

 Jazz Band

double bass, clarinet, saxophone, vibraphone, trombone

Traditional musical instruments

Accordion: bellows strap, treble register, treble keyboard,   key, grille, bellows, button, bass keyboard, bass register

Bagpipes: drope pipe, blow pipe, stock, windbag, chanter
Balalaika: triagular body.

Banjo – circular body

Djembe – batter skin, sound box, tension rope    ;     harmonica

Music Pictures for Classroom and Therapy Use

Banjo, Boombox, Bugle, Castanets, Circle Time, Clarinet, Compact Disc, Cymbals, Dance, Disco Ball, Drum , Drummer

Drummers , Flute, Flutist , Golden Harp, Guitar, Harmonica, Harp, Headphones, Jig, Ladies Dancing, Maracas, MP3 Player

Music, Music Note, Music Time, Note, Parade, Pat

Piano, Pipers Piping , Radio, Record, Sax, Sharp, Singing, Staff, Sticks, Sway, Tambourine, Theater, Trombone, Trumpet

Trumpet , Tuba, Ukelele, Violin, Wiggle, Xylophone

Musicians

The words for musicians who play individual instruments:

cello
cellist
clarinet
clarinetist
drums
drummer
guitar
guitarist
keyboard
keyboardist
piano
pianist
saxophone
saxophonist
trombone
trombonist
trumpet
trumpeter
violin
violinist

More words for people involved in music:
alto                          a female singer with a low voice
bass                         a male singer with a low voice
choir or chorus director someone who directs a group of singers
conductor            someone who directs a band or an orchestra
singer                     a person who makes music with his or her voice
soprano                 a female singer with a high voice
tenor                       a male singer with a high voice

Music

blues: a style of slow jazz evolved from African-American songs

• I love to listen to the blues when I’m lonely.

classical: European musk of the latter half of the eighteenth century; music of acknowledged excellence and serious style

• Classical music is often performed by the city’s symphony orchestra.

country: a style of popular music from the rural American south and southwest

• A lot of country musicians live and work in Nashville, Tennessee.

folk/ ethnic: music that originates among the common people of a region

• Folk music was very popular in the United States in the 1960s.

jazz: a kind of music that originated with African-American bands in the southern United States, characterized by improvisation and strong, flexible rhythm

• Jazz is popular in many parts of the world.

oldies: popular music from an earlier decade

• Her favorite oldies are from the 1950s and 1960s.

popular: music that is appreciated by a large number of people during the current period of time

• That radio station plays only popular music.

rap: a currently popular style of music that originated among African-American performers, characterized by talking, rather than singing, in rhyme and rhythm

• Rap is for listening, not dancing.

rhythm and blues: a style of music with strong, simple rhythm and lyrics that originated in the late 1940s and early 1950s among African-American groups

• Rhythm and blues is great for swing dancing.

rock: a popular style of music played by bands with electric guitars, keyboards, and drums, often with emotional singing by a group or one singer

• Rock concerts are very popular among young people.

rock and roll: a style of music that began in the 1950s and combined elements of rhythm and blues and country

• There were a lot of TV shows with rock-and-roll dancers.

Dance

ballet:
a formal, artistic dance with graceful movements and elaborate technique

• She has been dancing ballet since she was a child.

a ballet show

• We went to the ballet last night.

ballroom: a formal version of popular dance, where style and technique are important, including the foxtrot, waltz, swing, and Latin, among others

• I’m learning the waltz from my neighbor who teaches ballroom dancing.

dance:
movement in time with music

• Dance is a good way to exercise and relax at the same time.

an event where people go to dance

• Are you going to the dance on Saturday night?

jazz: a type of ballet performed to jazz music

• She is a top ballet performer and is also accomplished in jazz.

Latin: any of the dances performed to popular music from Latin America, including merengue, salsa, cumbia, bachata, mambo, samba, cha-cha, and tango, among others

• He is a good swing dancer, but what he really likes is Latin dancing.

line: a dance performed to country music, where dancers dance individually but all follow the same steps

• One good thing about line dancing is that you don’t need a partner.

tap: a dance performed with a metal plate attached to the toe or heel of the shoe

• She is good at both ballet and tap.

Instrument	Sound File	History
Accordion	Click to hear an accordion
Acoustic bass guitar
Acoustic guitar	Click to hear a Acoustic Guitar
Acoustic bass guitar	Click to hear a Acoustic Bass Guitar
Aeolian harp
Agung a Tamlang) (Philippine slit drum)
Agung/ agong (Philippine gong)
Ahoko (Ivory Coast rattle)
Ajaeng
Alboka (Spanish double hornpipe)
Alphorn	Click to hear a Alphorn
Alpine bell
Alto clarinet
Alto flute
Alto horn
Alto sarrusophone
Alto saxophone
Angklung (tuned bamboo slide rattle)	Click to hear an Angklung
Appalachian dulcimer	Click to hear an Appalachian dulcimer
Archlute		(Spanish archilaúd, Italian arciliuto, German Erzlaute, Russian Архилютня) is a European plucked string instrument developed around 1600)
Arghul (Arabic double pipe)	Click to hear an Arghul
Arpa anottolini (Italian hooked harp)
Arpeggione (Italian six-string)
Array Mbira (African thumb piano)
Aru-ding (Philippine Jew’s harp)
Aulochrome (double soprano saxophone)
Babendil (Philippine gong)
Baglama/ saz (Turkish strings)
Balafon (xylophone from Ghana)
Balalaika (Central Asian 2 or 3 stringed guitar)	Click to hear an Balalaika
Bandola (plucked lute from Cuba, Chile and Peru)
Bandoneón (Argentinian concertina)
Bandurria (Spanish/ Latin American plucked lute)
Banhu (Chinese bowed stringed instrument)
Banjo	Click to hear a Banjo
Barbat (Iranian plucked lute)
Baritone horn
Baritone sarrusophone
Baritone saxophone
Baroque Wooden Flute
Baryton (German Euphonium)
Bass Clarinet
Bass Drum
Bass flute
Bass guitar	Click to hear a Bass Guitar
Bass sarrusophone
Bass saxophone
Bass/ baritone oboe
Basse a Pistons (French Euphonium)
Basse Cor
Basset clarinet
Basset horn
Bassoon	Click to hear a Bassoon
Bawu (Chinese wind instrument)
Bayan (Russian Accordian)
Bazooka
Bell
Berimbao (Brazilian musical bow)
Bianqing (Chinese stone chimes)
Bianzhong (Chinese bells)
Bifora (Sicillian oboe)
Biniou (French bagpipe)
Biwa (Japanese short-necked lute)
Bock (German bagpipes)
Bodega (French bagpipe)
Bodhrán (Irish drum)
Boha (French bagpipe)
Bombarde
Bombardino (Spanish Euphonium)
Bongo drum
Border pipe/ lowland bagpipe
Bordonua (Puerto Rican bass guitar)
Bouzouki (Greek lute)
Brian Boru bagpipes
Bullroarer
Button accordian
Cabrette (French bagpipe)
Calliope (steam organ)
Carillon (Dutch harmonising bells)
Carillon (Dutch harmonising bells)
Castanets
Cavaco (Spanish guitar)
Cavaquinho (Portuguese guitar)
Caxixi (Brazilian idiophone)
Celesta (idiophone) invented 1886 in Paris by Auguste Mustel.	Click to hear a Celesta
Cello	Click to hear a Cello
Ceng (Turkish harp)
Chabrette (French bagpipe)
Chapman stick (fretboard)
Charango (South American fretted lute)
Chenda (Indian drum)
Chi (Chinese Transverse Flute)
Chimes
Ching (Cambodian/ Thai finger cymbals)
Chitaronne (lower-toned lute)
Chitarra battebte (Italian guitar)
Chromatic accordian
Cigar box guitar
Cimbalom (Eastern European hammered dulcimer)
Cimbasso
Cimpoi (Romanian bagpipe)
Cittern (Renaissance lute)
Clapped hands
Clarinet	Click to hear a Bb Clarinet
Clarinette d’amour
Classical guitar
Clavicembelo (Italian pianoforte)
Clavichord
Clavichord (European stringed keyboard)
Concertina
conch
Conga (Caribbean drum)
Contra-alto clarinet
Contra-alto flute
Contrabass á anche
Contrabass clarinet
Contrabass flute
Contrabass oboe
Contrabass Sarrusophone
Contrabass saxophone
Contrabassoon
Cornet/ Cornett/ Cornetto/ Zink
Cornish bagpipes
Cowbell
Croatian bagpipes
Cromorne
Crotales (Struck cymbals)
Crumhorn
Crwth (Welsh stringed instrument)
Cuatro (Latin American lute)
Cuíca (Brazilian drum)
Cymbals – crash, hi-hat, ride, splash, tom-toms, zil	Click to hear a Cymbals
Cymbalum (Western European hammered dulcimer)
Da’uli da’uli (Indonesian xylophone)
Dabakan (Philippine drum)
Dadihu (contrabass erhu)
Dahu (Chinese bowed stringed instrument)
Daiko (Japanese drum)
Dankiyo (Turkish bagpipe)
Daraboukka (Syrian drum)
Darabukka (Arabic drum)
Darbuka (Greek drum)
Darvyra (Greek Duct Flute)
Denis d’or (ancient Czech chordophone)
Dhol (Iranian drum)
Dholak (North Indian hand drum)
Didgeridoo (Aboriginal Natural Trumpet)
Dihu (Chinese large bowed stringed instrument)
Diyingehu (contrabass gehu)
Djembe (West African hand drum)
Doedelzak (Dutch bagpipe)
Dombak (Iranian drum)
Domra (Russian mandolin)
Dotara (bass ektara)
Double Bass	Click to hear a Double Bass
Double contrabass flute
Doulophone/ cuprophone
Drum machine
Dubreq stylophone
Duct Flute
Dudelsack (German bagpipe)
Dudy (Czech bagpipes)
Duff (Islamic tambourine)
Dulcian (pre-1700’s Western European Bassoon)
Dulcimer (hammered zither)
Dulzaina (Spanish oboe)
Dumbelek (Turkish drum)
Dun dun (West African large talking drum)
Dutar (Central Asian lute)
Duxianqin (Chinese one-stringed zither)
Ektara (Indian one-string)
Electric guitar	Click to hear a Electric Guitar
Electric organ	Click to hear a Electric Organ
Electric piano
Electronic:
English Horn/ Cor Anglais (French tenor Oboe)
Erhu (Chinese violin)
Erxian (Chinese bowed stringed instrument)
Euphonium	Click to hear a Euphonium
Fangxiang (Chinese metallophone)
Fiddle
Finger Cymbals
Fingerboard synthesizer
Fiscarmonica (Italian Accordian)
Flageolets
Flugelhorn
Flute	Click to hear a Flute
Folgerphone
French Horn
Gaida (Southern Balkan bagpipes)
Gaita (Portuguese & Spanish bagpipe)
Gajdy (Eastern European bagpipes)
Gambang (Indonesian xylophone)
Gan gan (West African small talking drum)
Gandingan (Philippine set of 4 hanging gongs)
Gandingan a kayo (Philippine xylophone)
Ganza (Brazilian rattle)
Gaohu (Chinese bowed stringed instrument)
Gayageum (Korean zither)
Gehu (Chinese cello-like)
Gender (Indonesian brass xylophone)
Geomungo/ komungo (Korean zither)
Ghatam (Indian drum)
Glass marimba
Glasschord (crystallophone)
Glockenspiel	Click to hear a Glockenspiel
Gong	Click to hear a Gong
Gottuvadhyam (Indian 21-stringed guitar)
Great Highland bagpipe
Great Irish warpipes
Guan (Chinese pipe)
Gugin (Chinese bridgeless zither)
Guiro (South & Central American notched gourd that is scraped)
Guitar
Guitar 12 Strings	Click to hear a Guitar 12 Strings
Guitarrón (Mexican large bass guitar)
Guqin (Chinese plucked zither)
Gusle/ gusla (Balkan guitar)
Gusli (Russian harp)
Guzheng (Chinese zither)
Hammered dulcimer
Handbells
Hang (steel hand drum)
Hardanger fiddle
Harmonica/ Mouth Organ
Harmonium/ reed organ
Harp	Click to hear a Harp
Harp guitar
Harpsichord	Click to hear a Harpsichord
Heckelphone
Hegelong (Philippine fretted boat-lute)
Hélicon
Hichiriki (Japanese Oboe)
Hocchiku (Japanese flute)
Hooked harp
Horagai (Japanese conch)
Horn
Hosho (Zimbabwean rattle)
Hsaio (Chinese Duct Flute)
Huemmelchen (German smallpipes)
Huluhu (Chinese bowed stringed instrument)
Hun (Korean flute)
Hunting Horn	Click to hear a Hunting Horn
Huqin (Chinese bowed stringed instrument)
Hurdy Gurdy	Click to hear a Hurdy Gurdy
Igil (Tuvan bowed instrument)
Inci (Philippine flute)
Ipu (Hawaiian rattle)
Irish bouzouki
Irish Uilleann (Indoor bagpipe)
Istarski mih (Croatian bagpipe)
Janggu (Korean drum)
Japanese Bamboo Flute/ Shakuhachi	Click to hear a Japanese Bamboo Flute
Jew’s harp	Click to hear a Jew’s harp
Jew’s harp (plucked idiophone)
Jiaohu (Chinese bowed stringed instrument)
Jinghu (Chinese bowed stringed instrument)
Jug
Kadlong (Philippine fretted boat-lute)
Kagul (Philippine slit drum)
Kangling (Tibetan serunai)
Kaval (Slovakian Duct Flute)
Kèn b?u (Vietnamese reed)
Kettle drum/ Timpani
Keyed Bugle
Keyed Trumpet
Khene (Northeast Thailand mouth organ)
Khim (Cambodian/ Thai hammered dulcimer)
Khloy (Cambodian flute)
Khol (South Indian drum)
Kissar (West African lyre)
Knatele (Finnish zither)
Kokyu (Japanese bowed instrument)
Komungo (Korean zither)
Kora (West African 21-string harp-lute)
Koto (Japanese zither)
Koudi (Chinese flute)
Koziol (Polish bagpipe)
Kubing (Philippine Jew’s harp)
Kulintang a kayo (Philippine xylophone)
Kulintang a putao/ kulintang a tiniok (Philippine metallophone)
Kulintang/ kolintang (Philippine gong group)
Kutiyapi (Philippine fretted boat-lute)
Kwa-yen (Chinese hanging drum)
Kwintangen kayo/ luntang (Philippine xylophone)
Lambeg (Irish drum)
Lancashire great-pipe
Langeleik (Norwegian stringed instrument)
Laruan (Chinese stringed instrument)
Lasso d’amore
Launeddas (Sardinian triple clarinet)
Leier (German hurdy gurdy)
Leiqin (Chinese bowed instrument)
Lirone
Lithophone (stone barred xylophone)
Lusheng (Chinese bamboo pipes)
Lute	Click to hear a Lute
Lyre
Magyar duda (Hungarian bagpipes)
Maguhu (Chinese bowed stringed instrument)
Malimba (xylophone from the Congo)
Mando-bass (bass mandolin)
Mandocello (large mandolin)
Mandola (US/ Canadian fretted stringed instrument)
Mandolin
Mangtong (Chinese bamboo pipes)
Maraca
Marimba	Click to hear a Marimba
Marimbao (Brazilian stringed instrument)
Marinbaphone
Mbira/ Sanza/ Thumb Piano (African stringed instrument)
Mellophone
Mellotron (polyphonic keyboard)
Melodeon
Melodica
Metallophones (metal barred xylophone)
Mijwiz (Arabic double pipe)
Mittlealtersackpfeife (German medieval bagpipe)
Mizwad (Arabic bagpipe)
Mohan veena (Indian guitar)
Moodswinger (zither)
Māorin khuur/ morin huur (Mongolian fiddle)
Mridangam (South Indian drum)
Muchosac (Belgian bagpipe)
Musette bressane (French bagpipe)
Musette de cour (French bagpipe)
Musette du centre (French bagpipe)
Musical bow
Musical Saw (wood cutting saw)
Nadaswaram (Indian wind instrument)
Naqara (Mongolian war drum)
Natural Trumpet
Nay (Syrian wooden flute)
Ney (Lebanese Flute)
Northumbrian smallpipes
Nose flute
Nyckelharpa (Swedish key harp)
Oboe	Click to hear a Oboe
Oboe d’amore
Oboe da caccia
Ocarina	Click to hear a Ocarina
Octaban (cylinder drum)
Octapad (electronic drumpad)
Octave mandolin
Octavin
Octocontra-alto clarinet
Octocontrabass clarinet
Oliphant/ Cor d’Oliphant
Ondes martenot (electronic keyboard and slide)
Ophicleide
Organ — electric
Organ pipe	Click to hear a Pipe Organ	Organ History
Overtone guitar
Paixiao (Chinese flute)
Palendang (Philippine flute)
Pan pipes
Pastoral pipes
Piano	Click to hear a piano	Piano History
Piccolo
Piccolo clarinet
Piccolo heckelphone
Piccolo oboe
Pipa (Chinese lute)
Pipe organ
Piva (Northern Italian bagpipe)
Psaltery (plucked zither)
Pulalu (Philippine flute)
Qanun (Turkish zither)
Quena (Andean flute)
Quinticlave (Ophicleide)
Racket
Rainstick
Raita (Moroccan serunai)
Rajao (Portuguese guitar)
Ranat ek elk (Thai metallophone)
Ranat thum lek (Thai metallophone)
Ratchet	Click to hear a Ratchet
Rattle
Rebab (Arabic bowed stringed instrument)
Rebec (15th/ 16th century rebab)
Recorder (Descant)	Click to hear a Recorder (Descant)
Reed contrabass
Reed Pipe
Riq/ riqq/ rik (Arabic tambourine)
Roman tuba
Ruan (Chinese plucked stringed instrument)
Rudra veena (Indian plucked stringed instrument)
Ryuteki (Japanese flute)
Sabar (Senegalese drum)
Sac de gemecs (Catalonian bagpipe)
Sackbutt (trombone family’s ancestor)
Säckpipa (Swedish bagpipe)
Saenghwang (Korean mouth organ)
Sallaneh (Iranian plucked stringed instrument)
Sampho (Cambodian barrel drum)
Sampler
Sang-auk (Burmese harp)
Santur (North Indian hammered zither)
Sanxian (Chinese lute)
Saraswati veena (South Indian lute)
Sarrusophone
Sarunay/ saronay/ sarunai/ saronai (Philippine metallophone)
Saung (Burmese harp)
Saw ou (Thai bowed stringed instrument)
Saw sam sai (Thai bowed stringed instrument)
Saxhorn
Saxonette
Saxophone
Schweizer sackpfeife (Swiss bagpipe)
Scottish smallpipes
Se (Chinese zither)
Serpent
Serunai (Islamic reed instrument)
Setar (Iranian lute)
Shamisen (Japanese 3-stringed instrument)
Shawm (Renaissance oboe)
Shekere (African rattle)
Sheng (Chinese mouth organ)
Shinobue (Japanese flute)
Shofar (Jewish horn)
Sihu (Chinese bowed stringed instrument)
Singing bowl/ rin gong (Himalayan standing bell)
Siren
Sitar (South Asian lute)	Click to hear a Sitar
Sleigh Bells	Click to hear a Sleigh Bells
Slide guitar
Slide whistle
Slit drum
Snare Drum	Click to hear a snare drum
Sopranino clarinet
Sopranino saxophone
Soprano clarinet
Soprano mandolin
Soprano saxophone
soprillo
Sorna (Afghan serunai)
Sousaphone
Spoons
Sralai (Cambodian reed)
Steel drum
Steel guitar
Subcontrabass flute
Subcontrabass saxophone
Suling (Indonsian/Philippine flute)
Suona (Chinese serunai)
Synclavier
Synthesizer
Tabla (Indian/ Pakistani drum)
Tagutok (Philippine slit drum)
Taiko (Japanese drum)
Talking drum
Tambour (French drum)
Tambourine
Tamburitza (Croatian/ Serbian mandolin)
Tan-tan (Brazilian hand drum)
Taphon (Thai drum)
Tar (Persian lute)
Tárogató (Hungarian shawm)
Tea chest bass (skiffle bass)
Tenor horn
Tenor mandola (European/ UK fretted stringed instrument)
Tenor sarrusophone
Tenor saxophone	Click to hear a Tenor Sax
Tenoroon (tenor bassoon)
Teponaztli (Mexican wooden drum)
Thavil (Indian drum)
Theorbo (lower-toned lute)
Theremin (oscillator)
Timpani/ kettle drum
Timple (Canary Islands/ Murcia ukulele)
Tin whistle
Tjelempung/ Celempung (Javanese zither)
Tom-tom
Tonette (plastic recorder)
Torupill (Estonian bagpipe)
Transverse Flute (Traditional Flute)
Trekspill (Norwegian Accordian)
Tres (Cuban chordophone)
Triangle	Click to hear a Triangle
Tro u (Cambodian bowed stringed instrument)
Tromba marina (European stringed instrument)
Trombone	Click to hear a Trombone
Tromboon/ babone
Trompeta china (Cuban suona)
Trumpet
Trumpet Bb	Click to hear a Bb Trumpet
Tsampouna (Greek bagpipe)
Tsuri-daiko (Japanese hanging drum)
Tuba	Click to hear a Tuba
Tubular Bells
Tuhu (Chinese bowed stringed instrument)
Tulum (Turkish bagpipe)
Tumpong (Philippine flute)
Turntables
Ud/ oud (Arabic and Islamic lute)
Udu (African clay drum)
Ukulele (Hawaiian guitar)
Valiha (Indonesian and Madagascan zither)
Vertical flute
Vertical viola
Veuze (French bagpipe)
Vibraphone/ vibraharp	Click to hear a Vibraphone/ vibraharp
Vichitra veena (Indian stringed instrument)
Vielle (French hurdy gurdy)
Vihuela (Spanish 2-string guitar)
Viola	Click to hear a Viola
Viola d’amore
Viola da gamba
Viola organista
Violin	Click to hear a Violin
Violotta
Vladimirsky Rozhok
Volinka (Russian bagpipes)
Wagner Tuba
Washboard
Washint (Ethiopian flute)
Washtub bass
Welsh pipes
Whip	Click to hear a Whip
Whistle	Click to hear a Whistle
Willow flute
Wind Chimes
Xalam/ khalam (West African Banjo-like instrument)
Xiao (Chinese flute)
Xiaodihu (tenor erhu)
Xun (Chinese flute)
Xylophone	Click to hear a Xylophones
Xylorimba (extended range xylophone)
Yang chi’in (Chinese zither)
Yang Chin (Chinese hammered dulcimer)
Yayli tanbur (Turkish lute)
Yazheng (Chinese zither)
Yehu (Chinese bowed stringed instrument)
Yu (Chinese bamboo pipes)
Yueh Ch’in (Chinese lute)
Yun Lo (Chinese gong)
Zampogna (Italian bagpipe)
Zaqq (Maltese bagpipe)
Zhongdihu (bass erhu)
Zhuihu (Chinese bowed stringed instrument)
Zither	Click to hear a Zither
Zonghu (Chinese bowed stringed instrument)
Zufalo (Italian flute)
Zurna (Turkish serunai)