General MIDI instrument codes

Piano Timbres:  1 Acoustic Grand Piano  2 Bright Acoustic Piano  3 Electric Grand Piano  4 Honky-tonk Piano  5 Rhodes Piano  6 Chorused Piano  7 Harpsichord  8 Clavinet	Chromatic Percussion:  9 Celesta 10 Glockenspiel 11 Music Box 12 Vibraphone 13 Marimba 14 Xylophone 15 Tubular Bells 16 Dulcimer	Organ Timbres: 17 Hammond Organ 18 Percussive Organ 19 Rock Organ 20 Church Organ 21 Reed Organ 22 Accordion 23 Harmonica 24 Tango Accordion
Guitar Timbres: 25 Acoustic Nylon Guitar 26 Acoustic Steel Guitar 27 Electric Jazz Guitar 28 Electric Clean Guitar 29 Electric Muted Guitar 30 Overdriven Guitar 31 Distortion Guitar 32 Guitar Harmonics	Bass Timbres: 33 Acoustic Bass 34 Fingered Electric Bass 35 Plucked Electric Bass 36 Fretless Bass 37 Slap Bass 1 38 Slap Bass 2 39 Synth Bass 1 40 Synth Bass 2	String Timbres: 41 Violin 42 Viola 43 Cello 44 Contrabass 45 Tremolo Strings 46 Pizzicato Strings 47 Orchestral Harp 48 Timpani
Ensemble Timbres: 49 String Ensemble 1 50 String Ensemble 2 51 Synth Strings 1 52 Synth Strings 2 53 Choir "Aah" 54 Choir "Ooh" 55 Synth Voice 56 Orchestral Hit	Brass Timbres: 57 Trumpet 58 Trombone 59 Tuba 60 Muted Trumpet 61 French Horn 62 Brass Section 63 Synth Brass 1 64 Synth Brass 2	Reed Timbres: 65 Soprano Sax 66 Alto Sax 67 Tenor Sax 68 Baritone Sax 69 Oboe 70 English Horn 71 Bassoon 72 Clarinet
Pipe Timbres: 73 Piccolo 74 Flute 75 Recorder 76 Pan Flute 77 Bottle Blow 78 Shakuhachi 79 Whistle 80 Ocarina	Synth Lead: 81 Square Wave Lead 82 Sawtooth Wave Lead 83 Calliope Lead 84 Chiff Lead 85 Charang Lead 86 Voice Lead 87 Fifths Lead 88 Bass Lead	Synth Pad: 89 New Age Pad 90 Warm Pad 91 Polysynth Pad 92 Choir Pad 93 Bowed Pad 94 Metallic Pad 95 Halo Pad 96 Sweep Pad
Synth Effects:   97 Rain Effect   98 Soundtrack Effect   99 Crystal Effect 100 Atmosphere Effect 101 Brightness Effect 102 Goblins Effect 103 Echoes Effect 104 Sci-Fi Effect	Ethnic Timbres: 105 Sitar 106 Banjo 107 Shamisen 108 Koto 109 Kalimba 110 Bagpipe 111 Fiddle 112 Shanai	Sound Effects: 113 Tinkle Bell 114 Agogo 115 Steel Drums 116 Woodblock 117 Taiko Drum 118 Melodic Tom 119 Synth Drum 120 Reverse Cymbal
Sound Effects: 121 Guitar Fret Noise 122 Breath Noise 123 Seashore 124 Bird Tweet	125 Telephone Ring 126 Helicopter 127 Applause 128 Gun Shot

Instruments can be selected by using the MIDI command byte (0xc0) followed by a data byte which is one of the above numbers (minus 1).

In General MIDI, Channel 10 is reserved for percussion sets. Here is a list of the percussion instruments assigned to each MIDI note number when using General MIDI Channel 10 (Note these values are offset from 0 rather than 1, so that #60 below is the key for middle-C):

35 Acoustic Bass Drum 36 Bass Drum 1 37 Side Stick 38 Acoustic Snare 39 Hand Clap 40 Electric Snare 41 Low Floor Tom 42 Closed High Hat 43 High Floor Tom 44 Pedal High Hat 45 Low Tom 46 Open High Hat 47 Low Mid Tom 48 High Mid Tom 49 Crash Cymbal 1 50 High Tom

51 Ride Cymbal 1 52 Chinese Cymbal 53 Ride Bell 54 Tambourine 55 Splash Cymbal 56 Cowbell 57 Crash Cymbal 2 58 Vibraslap 59 Ride Cymbal 2 60 High Bongo 61 Low Bongo 62 Mute High Conga 63 Open High Conga 64 Low Conga 65 High Timbale 66 Low Timbale

67 High Agogo 68 Low Agogo 69 Cabasa 70 Maracas 71 Short Whistle 72 Long Whistle 73 Short Guiro 74 Long Guiro 75 Claves 76 High Wood Block 77 Low Wood Block 78 Mute Cuica 79 Open Cuica 80 Mute Triangle 81 Open Triangle