How To Tell A Guitar From A Tesla Coil (Patreon)

Instruments come in all shapes and sizes. From guitars to gongs, from violins to theremins and everything in between, there's an almost infinite variety out there. So how would we even begin to organize them? Organology is the rigorous study of instruments, how they make sound, and how they're played, and it gives rise to a fascinating form of taxonomy, where instruments are grouped by both form and function to help us understand how closely related instruments from around the world really are.