古今世界上的乐器不下万种。要把世界上的乐器编成一部较为完善的辞书,确属十分艰巨的事。世上已有的乐器专业图书,总其量不算多;较丰富者尤其少,充其量一部书中仅涉及数百种乐器;而且,大部分著作又局限于以欧洲乐器为主的范围。本世纪七十年代出版的《世界乐器》 No less than ten kinds of instruments in ancient and modern world. It is an arduous task to compile the world’s instruments into a relatively complete dictionary. The total number of musical instruments available in the world is not large enough; the richest are especially few, at best only one hundred of them are involved in one book; and most of the works are limited to the range of instruments based in Europe. Seventies of this century, published “World Instrument”