General MIDI instrument codes

Piano Timbres:  0 Acoustic Grand Piano  1 Bright Acoustic Piano  2 Electric Grand Piano  3 Honky-tonk Piano  4 Rhodes Piano  5 Chorused Piano  6 Harpsichord  7 Clavinet	Chromatic Percussion:  8 Celesta 9 Glockenspiel 10 Music Box 11 Vibraphone 12 Marimba 13 Xylophone 14 Tubular Bells 15 Dulcimer	Organ Timbres: 16 Hammond Organ 17 Percussive Organ 18 Rock Organ 19 Church Organ 20 Reed Organ 21 Accordion 22 Harmonica 23 Tango Accordion
Guitar Timbres: 24 Acoustic Nylon Guitar 25 Acoustic Steel Guitar 26 Electric Jazz Guitar 27 Electric Clean Guitar 28 Electric Muted Guitar 29 Overdriven Guitar 30 Distortion Guitar 31 Guitar Harmonics	Bass Timbres: 32 Acoustic Bass 33 Fingered Electric Bass 34 Plucked Electric Bass 35 Fretless Bass 36 Slap Bass 1 37 Slap Bass 2 38 Synth Bass 1 39 Synth Bass 2	String Timbres: 40 Violin 41 Viola 42 Cello 43 Contrabass 44 Tremolo Strings 45 Pizzicato Strings 46 Orchestral Harp 47 Timpani
Ensemble Timbres: 48 String Ensemble 1 49 String Ensemble 2 50 Synth Strings 1 51 Synth Strings 2 52 Choir "Aah" 53 Choir "Ooh" 54 Synth Voice 55 Orchestral Hit	Brass Timbres: 56 Trumpet 57 Trombone 58 Tuba 59 Muted Trumpet 60 French Horn 61 Brass Section 62 Synth Brass 1 63 Synth Brass 2	Reed Timbres: 64 Soprano Sax 65 Alto Sax 66 Tenor Sax 67 Baritone Sax 68 Oboe 69 English Horn 70 Bassoon 71 Clarinet
Pipe Timbres: 72 Piccolo 73 Flute 74 Recorder 75 Pan Flute 76 Bottle Blow 77 Shakuhachi 78 Whistle 79 Ocarina	Synth Lead: 80 Square Wave Lead 81 Sawtooth Wave Lead 82 Calliope Lead 83 Chiff Lead 84 Charang Lead 85 Voice Lead 86 Fifths Lead 87 Bass Lead	Synth Pad: 88 New Age Pad 89 Warm Pad 90 Polysynth Pad 91 Choir Pad 92 Bowed Pad 93 Metallic Pad 94 Halo Pad 95 Sweep Pad
Synth Effects:   96 Rain Effect   97 Soundtrack Effect   98 Crystal Effect 99 Atmosphere Effect 100 Brightness Effect 101 Goblins Effect 102 Echoes Effect 103 Sci-Fi Effect	Ethnic Timbres: 104 Sitar 105 Banjo 106 Shamisen 107 Koto 108 Kalimba 109 Bagpipe 110 Fiddle 111 Shanai	Sound Effects: 112 Tinkle Bell 113 Agogo 114 Steel Drums 115 Woodblock 116 Taiko Drum 117 Melodic Tom 118 Synth Drum 119 Reverse Cymbal
Sound Effects: 120 Guitar Fret Noise 121 Breath Noise 122 Seashore 123 Bird Tweet	124 Telephone Ring 125 Helicopter 126 Applause 127 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:

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