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| Traditional Wiobian music is melodious with relatively sparse accompaniment, often having two melodic voices in counterpoint for high-class music. More recent music calls for a more dense orchestration, The music is based on a scale with fifteen notes per octave, that is capable of both small movements in melody and harmonic shifts ranging from the subtle to the dramatic. A wealth of inharmonic instruments such as metallophones, marimbas, cymbals and drums serve as ingredients for this sonic landscape. However also valued are harmonic instruments such as the plucked zither-like ''Tünd'', the strummed and fretted ''Þaus-Bung'', and the bowed ''Nisch-Ker''; as well as fixed-pitch wind instruments, for their ability to imitate the human voice and to emphasize especially harmonic intervals.
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