Instrument Family and Variants Discussion

[reosarevok]

Re: instrument-instrument rels:

@ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython

I think we need to do something more concise with instrument families and variants.there is the “Alto, Contralto, Soprano, Tenor, Bass, etc” variants of an instruments, you can consider them siblings in a flock, one a year older(a deeper tone) than the previous.

I’d agree that in the transverse flute page for example (ignoring the “children” issue because that’s just a placeholder) stuff like “soprano flute” (a specific version of western transverse flute) shouldn’t be equivalent to stuff like “sáo trúc” (a separate, although similar, Vietnamese instrument). I don’t really have any great ideas on how to name the possible separate relationships though, since a sáo trúc is definitely a type of transverse flute, but it’s not a type of the flute we usually think of when we use the word (what Wikipedia refers to as “Western classical flutes”).