Instrumentum musicum
Instrumentum musicum est apparatus cui soni musici fieri possunt. Instrumenta in genera varie describuntur, sed systema saepissime adhibita a praeceptoribus peritis in quinque generibus consistit:
 Idiophona, instrumenta quae pulsantur vel fricantur
 Membranophona, instrumenta quorum membranum pulsantur vel fricatur
 Chordophona, instrumenta quae nervis intenduntur
 Aerophona, instrumenta inflata
 Electrophona, instrumenta electronica

Pulsata

Antiquitus
 crotalum
 cymbalum
 sistrum
 tympanum
 tympanum rimae
 xylophonum

Serius 
 tinya
 scrateius

Hodie 

 acitabulum
apparatus tympanorum
cabāssa
 crepundia
 cithara Iudaica
 guira
 guiro 
 marimba
 mirvāsum
 malleus
 mbira
 siren
 tabla
 tamtam
 teponaztli 
 tympanum Dominicianum

Intensa

Antiquitus 

 lyra
 cithara
 barbitum aut barbĭtŏs
 phorminx
 cinyra (lyra levantina)
 sambuca
 pandura
 harpa
 psalterium
 nablium

Serius 
 lautus (pandurus arabicus)
 tambura Indica
 testudo
 testudo Arabica
 tiorba
 tsarangum
 viola

Hodie 

 ampla violina
 arcus musicus
 buzucium
 cithara Havaiana
 cithara Hispanica
 cithara electrica
 citharella
 clavicymbalum
 clavicymbalum Vosegi
 cobyzum
 comuzum
 contrabassum seu bassus duplex
 ectara
 esraja
 micronium
 muettum
 pandurium
 podobarbiton seu viola cruralis
 psalterium
 psalterium Benearniense
 quattuor
 tambara
 tambūra
 viola alta
 violina, seu fidicula seu fidla

Inflata

Antiquitus
 ascόs
 avena
 cornu
 ocarina
 salpinx
 tibia
 tuba
 utriculus

Serius 
 cornumusa
 harmonium
 sclareia
 quena
 zampogna

Hodie 

 clarineta seu tibia unicalama
cornu seu tuba incurva
 dulzaina
 euphonium
 fagottus
 fistula
 gaita Asturiana
 gaita Gallaica 
 gaita utricularis Rivogiana
 gaita Zuliana
 habbānum
lituus gallicus
 saxophonum
 sousaphonum
 sybyzgy
tibia recta
 tibia utricularis
tibia obliqua seu tibia transversa
tibia oxyphona
tuba clarisona
 tuba gravisona 
 tuba ductilis sue tuba diductilis
 tzopoztoor

Pinnigera

Antiquitus 
 organum
 organum hydraulicum seu hydraulis
 organum pneumaticum

Serius 
 clavichordum
 clavicymbalum
 virginale
 spineta

Hodie 
 clavichordum
 clavile
 clavile jazz

 Musica
 Orchestra

Notae

Fontes
 Brown, Howard Mayer. 2008. "Sachs, Curt." Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/24256 (inventum 5 Iunii 2008).
 Kartomi, Margaret J. 1990. On Concepts and Classifications of Musical Instruments. Sicagi: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-42548-7.
 Marcuse, Sibyl. 1975. A Survey of Musical Instruments. Harper & Row. ISBN 0-06-012776-7.
 Remnant, Mary. 1989. Musical Instruments: An Illustrated History from Antiquity to the Present. Batsford: Anova Books. ISBN 0-7134-5169-6.
 Sachs, Curt. 1940. The History of Musical Instruments. Novi Eboraci: W. W. Norton.