Instruments
124 instruments and ensembles. For each: its range and loudness, where the sound comes from, and the mics that 433 books, magazines, engineers and makers recommend for it (1,450 setups), with every source cited.
Music
Voices
- Alto
- Baritone
- Bass voice
- Countertenormale alto
- Female voice
- Male voice
- Mezzo-soprano
- Soprano
- Tenor
- Trebleboy soprano
Choir
Bowed strings
Folk and world fiddles
Other bowed strings
Plucked strings
Zithers
- Autoharp
- GuzhengChinese zither
- KotoJapanese zither
- Mountain dulcimerAppalachian dulcimer
- Santur and hammered dulcimer
Lutes
- Bouzouki
- Mandolin
- OudArabic lute
- PipaChinese lute
- SarodIndian fretless lute
- ShamisenJapanese three-string lute
- TanpuraIndian drone lute
Other plucked strings
Keyboards
Woodwinds and reeds
Woodwinds
- Alto flute
- Bass clarinet
- Bass flute
- Bassoon
- Clarinet
- Contrabassoondouble bassoon
- E-flat clarinet
- English horncor anglais
- Flute
- Oboe
- Piccolo
Saxophones
Free reeds
Bagpipes
Folk and world flutes
- BansuriIndian bamboo flute
- Neyend-blown reed flute
- ShakuhachiJapanese bamboo flute
- Tin whistlepenny whistle