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jawbone

idiophone percussion instrument made from the jawbone of a donkey, horse or mule cattle, producing a powerful buzzing sound
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jawbone

Summary

jawbone ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (333 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • jawbone is made of human mandible[2].
  • jawbone is a type of idiophone[3].
  • jawbone is a type of scraped sticks without resonator[4].
  • jawbone's Commons category is recorded as Quijada[5].
  • jawbone's Hornbostel-Sachs classification is recorded as 112.211[6].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include idiophone[3] and scraped sticks without resonator[4].

Why It Matters

jawbone ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (333 views/month).[1] jawbone has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[7]

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [7] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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  1. 13d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Made from material → human mandible
    Subclass of → —
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → idiophone, scraped sticks without resonator
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007531505505171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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