Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A lamellophone (also lamellaphone or linguaphone, from the Latin root 'lingua' meaning "tongue", i.e., a long thin plate that is fixed only at one end) is any of a family of musical instruments. The name comes from the Latin word "lamella" for "plate" and the Greek root "phonos" for "sound". The name derives from the way the sound is produced: the instrument has a series of thin plates, or "tongues", each of which is fixed at one end and has the other end free. When the musician depresses the free end of a plate with a finger or fingernail, and then allows the finger to slip off, the released plate vibrates. A tongue may be plucked either from above or below. In the original Hornbostel-Sachs classification of musical instruments, lamellophones are classified as a category of plucked idiophones. While this is appropriate for the various forms of Jew's Harp and the European mechanical music box, it has been argued that the African thumb pianos (mbiras) are not idiophones but constitute a class of their own.

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