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| | Lecture 4: Musical instruments and musical expression |
 | | The list of materials used to make musical instruments is staggering, and goes much, much further than what was mentioned above-- shells, horns of animals, animal bladders, tree logs, tortoise shells, and even giant squash (hollowed out and with a single-reed tube inserted-- called the Tromba di Zucca!), to name just a few. |
 | | There are literally thousands of musical instruments from all around the world--obsolete ones, current ones, experimental ones--and a whole branch of study has grown up around them called organology. |
 | | The study of musical instruments is a lifetime study, especially because in some cultures, instruments have a cultural significance or religious function far exceeding what the Western art music tradition has assigned to them. |
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