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Witness the complicated interplay between the damper, hammer, wippen, and other grand-piano components behind every keystroke

Watch a man playing the sarod, a stringed instrument of Hindustani music

Watch a man playing a Brazilian musical bow called Berimbau

Watch a woman playing the hammered dulcimer

Playing the rebab, an instrument that elaborates the melody in Javanese gamelan music

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