Organologists (those who study the science of musical instruments and their classification) have classified musical instruments into four major categories, each distinguished by its primary sound-producing mechanism: idiophones, membranophones, chordophones and aerophones. But there's another category: fictophones, for imaginary musical instruments.
Existing as diagrams, drawings or written descriptions, these devices never produce a sound. Yet they are no less a part of musical culture for that. You can find out about them at the Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments.
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