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  2. List of period instruments - Wikipedia

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    The clavichord is an example of a period instrument. In the historically informed performance movement, musicians perform classical music using restored or replicated versions of the instruments for which it was originally written. Often performances by such musicians are said to be "on authentic instruments".

  3. Mandore (instrument) - Wikipedia

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    The instrument's most commonly played relatives today are members of the mandolin family and the bandurria. The mandore arrived in France from Spain, and was considered a new instrument in French music books from the 1580s, [4] but can be seen as a development of the gittern. [5] [6] In Spain the mandore was called vandola.

  4. History of the mandolin - Wikipedia

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    Dating to c. 13,000 BC, a cave painting in the Trois Frères cave in France depicts what some believe is a musical bow, a hunting bow used as a single-stringed musical instrument. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] From the musical bow, families of stringed instruments developed; since each string played a single note, adding strings added new notes, creating bow ...

  5. Stradivarius - Wikipedia

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    Stradivarius instruments are at risk of theft. Stolen instruments are often recovered, even after being missing for many years. They are difficult to sell illicitly, as dealers will typically call the police if approached by a seller with a Stradivarius known to have been stolen. [28] The General Kyd Stradivarius was stolen in 2004. It was ...

  6. Category:Musical instruments in art - Wikipedia

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    Arcadia (painting) The Archdukes Albert and Isabella Visiting a Collector's Cabinet; Arearea; Around the Piano; The Art of Painting; As the Old Sang, So the Young Pipe (Jordaens, Antwerp) As the Old Sang, So the Young Pipe (Jordaens, Valenciennes) Ascension of Christ (Perugino, Lyon) The Attributes of Civilian and Military Music

  7. String instrument - Wikipedia

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    The confusing plenitude of stringed instruments can be reduced to four fundamental type: zithers, lutes, lyres, and harps. In most string instruments, the vibrations are transmitted to the body of the instrument, which often incorporates some sort of hollow or enclosed area. The body of the instrument also vibrates, along with the air inside it.

  8. List of string instruments - Wikipedia

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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

  9. Cittern - Wikipedia

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    The cittern or cithren (Fr. cistre, It. cetra, Ger. Cister, Sp. cistro, cedra, cítola) [1] is a stringed instrument dating from the Renaissance.Modern scholars debate its exact history, but it is generally accepted that it is descended from the Medieval citole (or cytole).