[lojban-beginners] short question

[Heather Grove <windharp@stormloader.com>]

coi rodo

I'm really very new both to the list and to learning lojban, so please forgive if this has been covered already. This sounds a bit like nit-picking, I suppose, and I really don't mean it that way.  I'm honestly confused:

I was poking through the dictionary material, thinking that I would look up some vocabulary that I use fairly often in my daily English, and I ran across something that made me frown a bit: the definition of {pipno} includes musical instruments piano/harpsichord/synthesizer/organ.  Given that  {jgita} is for stringed instruments (piano and harpsichord are strings, one hammered and one plucked) and {flani} is for edge blown pipes/flutes (organs are edge blown pipes), I'm unable to choose which words to use.  

Does {pipno} refer specifically to the keyboard mechanism used to play the music rather than the family to which the instrument belongs?  {jgita} and {flani} seem to focus on the method-of-sound-production aspect.  Reed instruments are split up oddly, too:  {xagri} takes a very broad approach by lumping together single-reed (saxophone, clarinet) and double-reed (oboe, bassoon, bagpipes), while the lip-reeds get {tabra} all to themselves.  While it is nice to have two separate ways to name an instrument, it seems that the existance of {pipno} is a bit redundant here.  Am I missing something?  Is there another somewhat redundant word which refers to the method of fingering wind/brass instruments?  If {pipno} does refer to the keyboard part and {xagri} refers to the method of sound production, how should I best translate 'accordion'?  

I know, I'm crazy.  No one else much cares what you call it, so long as the instrument is in tune.  So I'll advance a 'thank you' to anyone who is even half as crazy as I am and is willing to shed some light on this for me (or even point me to the correct part of the dictionary!).


co'o
xeket.

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