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Changes to instruments and instrument descriptions for localization on Transifex
diff --recursive '--unified=0' --color left/po/instrument_descriptions.pot right/po/instrument_descriptions.pot
--- left/po/instrument_descriptions.pot 2019-04-10 12:29:19.085420963 +0200
+++ right/po/instrument_descriptions.pot 2019-04-10 12:29:19.085420963 +0200
@@ -9 +8,0 @@
-msgid "A bullroarer consists of a piece of wood attached to a long cord which is then swung in a circle."
@@ -18 +16,0 @@
-msgid "A flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening."
@@ -28 +25,0 @@
-msgid "A lithophone is a musical instrument consisting of a rock or pieces of rock which are struck to produce musical notes."
@@ -34 +30,0 @@
-msgid "A musical saw is a hand saw used as a musical instrument. It is usually played by bowing the non-serrated edge."
@@ -49 +44,0 @@
-msgid "A typewriter, used for percussion (either keys or bells)"
@@ -52 +46,0 @@
-msgid "A wooden fish is an idiophone often used during Buddhist rituals in East Asia."
@@ -58 +51,0 @@
-msgid "An African percussion instrument, made of a dried gourd plant. Struck with hands or objects."
@@ -63 +55,0 @@
-msgid "An electric piano is an electro-mechanical musical instrument. Depending on the type of electric piano, the tones may be produced by strings, reeds or tuning forks."
@@ -73,2 +65,3 @@
-msgid "Any kind of idiophone with membranes, variously sized drums. For the instrument commonly known as \"drums\" use <a href=\"https://beta musicbrainz.org/instrument/12092505-6ee1-46af-a15a-b5b468b6b155\">drumset</a>"
-msgid "Any kind of idiophone with membranes, variously sized drums."
+msgid "Ancient reedless fipple flute made of bamboo."
+msgid "Any kind of instrument with membranes, usually variously sized drums."
+msgid "Any kind of unspecified percussion with membranes, variously sized drums. For the instrument commonly known as \"drums\" use <a href=\"https:/ musicbrainz.org/instrument/12092505-6ee1-46af-a15a-b5b468b6b155\">drums (drum set)</a>. For programmed or \"drum-loops\" use <a href=\"https:/ musicbrainz.org/instrument/ce0eed13-58d8-4744-8ad0-b7d6182a2d0f\">drum machine</a>."
@@ -86,0 +80 @@
+msgid "Besides being used for writing, it has also been used in percussion."
@@ -100,0 +95 @@
+msgid "Consisting of tuned metal bars, slates or keys struck with mallets and arranged (often on resonators of sonorous material) in various scales. Compare <a href=\"https://musicbrainz.org/instrument db95a035-6a3d-44b4-8694-74ff71b61768\">xylophone</a> for the wooden bar equivalent."
@@ -106 +101 @@
-msgid "Cup or bellshaped bells, these are shuk or struck."
+msgid "Cup or bellshaped bells, these are shook or struck."
@@ -121,0 +117,2 @@
+msgid "Ede traditional flute, four finger holes, blowing reed"
+msgid "Effectively a bass sitar, it has 4 main, 3-4 chikari(drone) and 10-11 resonance strings strung over a wide wooden neck. Made of flat-cut gourd with a possible secondary resonator (tumba) it was invented in 1825 by sitar player Ghulam Mohammed who wanted a deeper sound."
@@ -129,0 +127,2 @@
+msgid "Fipple or duct flutes have a mouthpiece that is breathed into, but no reeds"
+msgid "First referred to in 1722, this transposing double-reed has a curved tube and a flared (brass) bell."
@@ -134,0 +134 @@
+msgid "From the Bali and Java use in gamelan, it has 12-14 tuned bronze keys suspended over metal or bamboo resonators."
@@ -135,0 +136,2 @@
+msgid "Generally consists of one to very many plates, sticks, or other objects hit with (or against) various types of mallets."
+msgid "Generally consists of two completely equal or somewhat unsymmetrical sticks, plates, shells or similar hit together."
@@ -149,0 +152 @@
+msgid "Important in Yue, Kunkqu and Peking opera, it consists of the drum <a href \"https://musicbrainz.org/instrument/42349583-c10d-4c6e b553-28d916113856\">bangu</a> and the clapper <a href=\"https://beta musicbrainz.org/instrument/c641bccc-2060-4871-9c12-e2df2523e53c\">paiban< a>. Drum is played by one hand and clapper with the other."
@@ -159,0 +163 @@
+msgid "It has seven bossed keys hit with the tabuh mallet and is nailed to a wooden frame. Largely replaced by the <a href=\"https://musicbrainz.org instrument/73173277-b7ef-4d5e-83b2-205cd2f12488\">slethem</a> in gamelan, it is the lowest member of the saron family."
@@ -178,0 +183 @@
+msgid "Made of bamboo, it has from 4 to 6 finger-holes and a small wedge-shaped fipple. There are many varieties all around Southeast Asia, it is also used in gamelan."
@@ -179,0 +185 @@
+msgid "Made of dried gourd. Struck with hands or objects."
@@ -183,0 +190 @@
+msgid "Made of sandalwood or bamboo, 2 blocks are tied together with a string, a third with a ribbon. Part of the drum and clapper ensemble guban, but confusingly, the clapper alone can also be called guban."
@@ -185,0 +193 @@
+msgid "Made of various materials, clappers are struck together to keep rhythm and time for use in ceremonies and rituals and to accompany dancing and singing."
@@ -191 +199 @@
-msgid "Mirliton is a generic term for membranophones played by a performer speaking or singing into them, and which alter the sound of the voice by means of a vibrating membrane."
+msgid "More common in the 19th century, it was made of flat-cut gourd and had 16 frets, In the 1820s it was used by Ghulam Mohammed to develop the surbahar."
@@ -199,0 +208 @@
+msgid "Often used in group musical education and by street musicians, it consists of individual colourful hollow plastic tubes of various widths that are struck on various surfaces to produce sound, tubes can also be arranged and hit by mallets."
@@ -212,0 +222,2 @@
+msgid "Part of central Javanese gamelan, the 6(slendro)-7(pelog) bronze keys beat by a disk mallet(tabuh) are suspended above individual tube metal/bamboo resonators set in a 75 cm long wooden frame."
+msgid "Part of the Javanese gamelan, these can have from six up to nine thick bronze or iron slabs resting on wooden resonator (rancak) and are hit with wooden mallets or buffalo horn."
@@ -229,0 +241 @@
+msgid "Reedless Aerophone, usually a tube"
@@ -233,0 +246 @@
+msgid "Scraper made of bones tied together with rope scraped with a conch-shell, in Catalonia it's scraped with a castanet. Ginebra is a variant made of cane."
@@ -234,0 +248 @@
+msgid "Shaken idiophone or rattle. Sound is produced by holding or containing usually small concussing parts."
@@ -238,0 +253 @@
+msgid "Simultaneously a woodwind and membranophone, sound is produced by singing or speaking into a thin buzzing membrane."
@@ -251,0 +267 @@
+msgid "Soundbox made of gourd, it has 18-21 (6-7 on frets and 11-15 sympathetic under the frets) metal strings, two bridges and a long wooden neck where the tuning pegs of the sympathetic strings are attached. Used in India since ancient times, it flourished during the 16-17th before arriving at it's current form in the 18th century. It became popular worldwide in the 1950-60"
@@ -289 +304,0 @@
-msgid "The bangu or danpigu is a Chinese frame drum, struck by two bamboo sticks. It is usually played along with the clappers ban (Chinese: 板, bǎn) and both instruments are known collectively as <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki Guban_(instrument)\">guban</a> (Chinese: 鼓板, gǔbǎn)."
@@ -355 +369,0 @@
-msgid "The gramorimba is a lithophone, similar to a xylophone whose bars are made of stone."
@@ -380 +393,0 @@
-msgid "The khlui is a vertical duct flute from Thailand which is generally made of bamboo."
@@ -416 +428,0 @@
-msgid "The oboe da caccia is a double reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family, pitched a fifth below the oboe and used primarily in the Baroque period of European classical music."
@@ -419 +430,0 @@
-msgid "The pakhavaj is an Indian barrel-shaped, two-headed drum used in Hindustani music."
@@ -447 +457,0 @@
-msgid "The saron is an Indonesian musical instrument which is used in the gamelan. It normally has seven bronze bars placed on top of a resonating frame."
@@ -468 +477,0 @@
-msgid "The sitar is a plucked stringed instrument used mainly in Hindustani music and Indian classical music which is descended from a similar but simpler Persian instrument called the setar."
@@ -473 +481,0 @@
-msgid "The suling is a bamboo flute from Southeast Asia."
@@ -547,0 +556 @@
+msgid "Tube made of metal or bamboo, it is filled with seeds, pebbles or sand. Especially used in Latin American music, it is shaken rhythmically to produce sound."
@@ -557,0 +567 @@
+msgid "Used by Australian Aboriginals to maintain rhythm in chants and traditionally to accompany didgeridoo. There are also Boomerang clapsticks."
@@ -559,0 +570 @@
+msgid "Used in Hindustani dhrupad, this two-headed barrel-drum is tuned like its descendant the tabla."
@@ -561,0 +573 @@
+msgid "Used in folk music, bamboo is split into a pair of 40 cm long sticks which are hit together."
@@ -562,0 +575,2 @@
+msgid "Used in royal ceremonies, played by striking against the palm, it is made of several pieces of wood, ivory and sheets of brass between two larger pieces of wood tied together by a string at one end."
+msgid "Used in the chant, sēphā, a pair of squared bevelled rosewood sticks around 21 cm long and 3-4 cm thick."
@@ -573 +587 @@
-msgid "While also known as Cor anglais, it is neither a horn nor English, but a transposing member of the oboe family, pitched at F"
+msgid "While also known as English horn, it is neither a horn nor English, but a transposing member of the oboe family, pitched at F"
@@ -576,0 +591 @@
+msgid "Widely used in folk music, opera and music ensembles, it can be round or cone-shaped with cow/pigskin nailed to the larger convex end which has a small hole (guxin)."
@@ -606 +620,0 @@
-msgid "edo village traditional flute, four finger holes, blowing reed"
diff --recursive '--unified=0' --color left/po/instruments.pot right/po/instruments.pot
--- left/po/instruments.pot 2019-04-10 12:29:02.255421167 +0200
+++ right/po/instruments.pot 2019-04-10 12:29:02.255421167 +0200
@@ -2,0 +3 @@
+msgid "Afuche/Cabasa"
@@ -19 +19,0 @@
-msgid "English horn" with context "Transposing oboe"
@@ -68 +67,0 @@
-msgid "afuche / cabasa"
@@ -88,0 +88 @@
+msgid "arrabel" with context "Spanish bone scraper"
@@ -104 +104 @@
-msgid "bangu"
+msgid "bangu" with context "Traditional Chinese frame drum"
@@ -142,0 +143 @@
+msgid "bell"
@@ -144 +144,0 @@
-msgid "bells"
@@ -162,0 +163 @@
+msgid "boomwhacker" with context "Tuned hollow plastic tubes"
@@ -216,0 +218 @@
+msgid "clapstick" with context "Ancient Aboriginal rhythm stick"
@@ -228,0 +231 @@
+msgid "concussion idiophone"
@@ -235,0 +239 @@
+msgid "cor anglais" with context "Curved bulb belled transposing oboe"
@@ -283 +286,0 @@
-msgid "drum" with context "Generic drums of any kind."
@@ -331 +334 @@
-msgid "flute"
+msgid "flute" with context "Reedless aerophone"
@@ -355,0 +359 @@
+msgid "gendèr" with context "Family of Indonesian metallophones"
@@ -372,0 +377 @@
+msgid "guban" with context "Traditional chinese drum and clapper."
@@ -429,0 +435 @@
+msgid "kachva sitar" with context "Flat-cut gourd sitar"
@@ -450 +456 @@
-msgid "khlui"
+msgid "khlui" with context "Vertical bamboo duct flute"
@@ -471,0 +478,4 @@
+msgid "krap khū" with context "Thai bamboo concussion sticks"
+msgid "krap phuang" with context "Thai wood/brass clappers"
+msgid "krap sēphā" with context "Thai bevelled wood rhythm-sticks"
+msgid "krap" with context "Group of thai concussion idiophones"
@@ -479 +489 @@
-msgid "lamellophone"
+msgid "lamellaphone"
@@ -492 +502 @@
-msgid "lithophone"
+msgid "lithophone" with context "Arrangement of struck tuned stone bars."
@@ -516 +526 @@
-msgid "membranophone" with context "generic drums of any kind"
+msgid "membranophone"
@@ -519 +529 @@
-msgid "metallophone"
+msgid "metallophone" with context "Arrangements of struck tuned metal bars."
@@ -551 +560,0 @@
-msgid "não bạt / chập chõa"
@@ -553 +562 @@
-msgid "oboe da caccia"
+msgid "oboe da caccia" with context "Baroque curved flared bell transposing oboe"
@@ -576 +585,2 @@
-msgid "pakhavaj"
+msgid "paiban" with context "Ancient Chinese clapper"
+msgid "pakhawaj" with context "Dhrupad wooden two-headed barrel-drum"
@@ -581,0 +592 @@
+msgid "percussion idiophone"
@@ -630 +640,0 @@
-msgid "rattle"
@@ -666 +676 @@
-msgid "saron"
+msgid "saron" with context "Javanese wooden trough metallophone family"
@@ -675,0 +686 @@
+msgid "scraped idiophone"
@@ -679 +690,2 @@
-msgid "shakers"
+msgid "shaken idiophone"
+msgid "shakers" with context "Latin-American tube rattle"
@@ -697 +709,3 @@
-msgid "sitar"
+msgid "sitar" with context "Indian long-necked lute"
+msgid "slenthem" with context "Central Javanese single octave metallophone"
+msgid "slentho" with context "Largely obsolete Central Javan metallophone."
@@ -727 +741 @@
-msgid "suling"
+msgid "suling" with context "Southeast asian bamboo fipple flute"
@@ -728,0 +743 @@
+msgid "surbahar" with context "Bass sitar"
@@ -824,2 +839 @@
-msgid "tumutumu" with context "Māori taonga pūoro ancient struck percussion"
-msgid "tuned percussion"
+msgid "tumutumu" with context "Māori taonga pūoro ancient struck idiophone"
@@ -836,0 +851 @@
+msgid "unspecified drum" with context "Drums not specified. For rock \"drums\" credits, you generally want \"drums ""(drum set)\". For \"programmed\" drums you generally want drum machine. ONLY ""USE IF THERE'S NO BETTER ALTERNATIVE"
@@ -889 +904 @@
-msgid "xylophone"
+msgid "xylophone" with context "Arrangement of struck tuned wooden bars."
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