As a polyphonic instrument, the lute can offer harmonies and lines of counterpoint that are only implied in the violin and cello versions.

The then-revolutionary principle of combining five analog voices with easy editing and programming within a compact format established a new standard for polyphonic instruments.

However, the couesnophone is a polyphonic instrument, while the saxophone is monophonic.

He also expanded on his original monophonic models, which played only a single musical line at a time, creating polyphonic instruments that allowed for harmony and counterpoint.

It most often has five or six pipes of different pitches, and is thus a polyphonic instrument.

This makes it harder to convey information required for the proper rendition of multiple-part music on any polyphonic instrument.

Keyboards and lutes developed as polyphonic instruments, and composers arranged increasingly complex pieces using more advanced tablature.

These sets of chime bells were used as polyphonic musical instruments and some of these bells have been dated at between 2,000 to 3,600 years old.

It is a polyphonic instrument, with one of the pipes functioning as a drone and the other two playing the melody in thirds and sixths.

Designed as a fully polyphonic chordal instrument, it can also cover several of these musical parts simultaneously.