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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.
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".
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 ...
Antonio Stradivari, by Edgar Bundy, 1893: a romanticized image of a craftsman-hero. A Stradivarius is one of the string instruments, such as violins, violas, cellos, and guitars, crafted by members of the Stradivari family, particularly Antonio Stradivari (Latin: Antonius Stradivarius), in Cremona, Italy, during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
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
Seven-string guitar; Tailed bridge guitar; Tenor guitar; Ten-string guitar; Twelve-string guitar; Guitaro; Guitarrón argentino (Argentina) Guitarrón mexicano (Mexico) Guitarrón chileno (Chile) Guqin (China) Gusli (Russia) Guzheng (China) Harp. Chromatic harp; Electric harp; Folk harp; Pedal Harp (a.k.a. concert harp) Triple harp; Harpsichord ...
The origin of the violin family is obscure. [1] [2] Some say that the bow was introduced to Europe from the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic world, [3] [4] [5] while others say the bow was not introduced from the Middle East but the other way around, and that the bow may have originated from more frequent contact between Northern and Western Europe.
The Baroque guitar (c. 1600 –1750) is a string instrument with five courses of gut strings and moveable gut frets. The first (highest pitched) course sometimes used only a single string. The first (highest pitched) course sometimes used only a single string.