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Long String Instrument, (by Ellen Fullman, strings are rubbed in, and vibrate in the longitudinal mode) Magnetic resonance piano , (strings activated by electromagnetic fields) Stringed instruments with keyboards
In musical instrument classification, string instruments, ... [11] [12] From the surviving images, theorists have categorized the Mesopotamian lutes, ...
This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones, membranophones, struck chordophones, blown percussion instruments)
Zither (/ ˈ z ɪ ð ər, ˈ z ɪ θ-/; [1] German:, from the Greek cithara) is a class of stringed instruments. The modern instrument has many strings stretched across a thin, flat body. [1] [2] [3] Zithers are typically played by strumming or plucking the strings with the fingers or a plectrum.
A string instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound with vibrating strings amplified by one or more of three main methods: Vibration of a sounding board via a bridge; Resonance of air in a sound box, often through a sound hole; Electric pickup for an instrument amplifier driving a loudspeaker
The psaltery of Ancient Greece was a harp-like stringed instrument.The word psaltery derives from the Ancient Greek ψαλτήριον (psaltḗrion), "stringed instrument, psaltery, harp" [3] and that from the verb ψάλλω (psállō), "to touch sharply, to pluck, pull, twitch" and in the case of the strings of musical instruments, "to play a stringed instrument with the fingers, and not ...
The cythara is a wide group of stringed instruments of medieval and Renaissance Europe, including not only the lyre and harp but also necked, string instruments. [1] In fact, unless a medieval document gives an indication that it meant a necked instrument, then it likely was referring to a lyre.
The sarod is a stringed instrument, used in Hindustani music on the Indian subcontinent. Along with the sitar , it is among the most popular and prominent instruments. [ 1 ] It is known for a deep, weighty, introspective sound, in contrast with the sweet, overtone-rich texture of the sitar, with sympathetic strings that give it a resonant ...