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To make firearms (or any weapons) more friendly, combine any weapon and any musical instrument.
Here's a good example.
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Musical instrument is usually an item, with the help of which musicians perform or improvise music or any, including non-musical unorganized sounds.
Nowadays, existing common musical instruments are subdivided into several groups: fretted, bow stringed, brass wind, reed wind, wood-wind and percussion. Keyboard instruments can be put into separate group, though, methods of sound production in them often varies. Standard scientific classification of musical instruments — Hornbostel Sachs system.
Fretted musical instruments:
Balalaika, domra, oud, lyre, guitar, lute, bouzouki etc belong to fretted musical instruments.
Bow-stringed musical instruments:
Orchestra instruments such as violin, viola, violoncello, double bass and also viola da gamba (viol), viola d'amore, Sweden's traditional musical instrument nyckelharpa and Norwegian traditional violin Hardangerfele belong to bow-stringed musical instruments category.
Brass wind instruments:
* Trumpet;
* Cornet;
* Trombone;
* French horn;
* Tuba;
* Helicon
Reed instruments:
* Jew’s-harp (guimbarde);
* Mouth organ;
* Accordion;
* Button accordion;
* Harmonica
Wood-wind instruments:
* Didgeridoo;
* Trembita;
* Pipe;
* Duduk;
* Flute;
* Pan flute;
* Clarinet;
* Bass clarinet;
* Oboe;
* Bassoon;
* Contra bassoon;
* Salt wart;
* Sheng;
* And the saxophone, which has joined them (in this case, saxophone is metallic, wooden in reed).
Percussion instruments:
Numerous family of musical instruments. Percussion instruments are subdivided into 3 principal types:
* With unspecified height of sounding, among them are:
o Instruments with membrane: Drums, tambourines, dafs, gauche nakers, goblet drum etc;
o Instruments with self-sounding body: Triangles, plates and gongs, castanets, various little bells, shakers and maracas, wooden boxes, flexatone etc
* With specific sounding height, i.e, preset to notes. Includes bells, kettle drums, certain varieties of cow bells, wood blocks, gongs etc;
* Keyboard percussion instruments: xylophone, vibraphone, marimba, hand bells and other similar instruments, meant for performing separate notes and various melodies.
Keyboard wind instruments:
Organ, harmonium (button accordion, accordion and harmonica; nevertheless, keyboard of the last three instruments differ from each other. Keyboard percussion instrument is celesta and harpsichord.
Stringed keyboard instruments:
Stringed keyboard instrument — very popular piano, existing in horizontal (grand piano) and vertical (piano) variants and also harpsichord, virginals, spinet and clavichord.
Electrical musical instruments:
Development of electronics in the beginning of XXth century attracted development of electrical musical instruments; first of them (termenvox) was designed in 1917. Modern sound synthesizers simulate sounding of all known musical instruments and also every possible sounds (for example, singing of birds, peals of thunders, sound of passing train etc.).
More often, synthesizers are equipped with piano type keyboard.
Recently, reactable instrument was developed.
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