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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
This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones, membranophones, struck chordophones) [ edit ]
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
Fretted stringed instrument with a hollow body 321.322: Puerto Rico: cuatro [118] Fretted stringed instrument with a hollow body, derived from the Spanish tiple and other stringed instruments, made from carved wood with strings (ten, in five sets of two) of leather strips or dried animal gut 321.322: Rome, Ancient: tibiae [119] aulos (Greek name)
A vibrating string strung on a very thick log, as a hypothetical example, would make only a very quiet sound, so string instruments are usually constructed in such a way that the vibrating string is coupled to a hollow resonating chamber, a soundboard, or both. On the violin, for example, the four strings pass over a thin wooden bridge resting ...
Names and variations Description Ethnic connections, regions Pictures Pictures Adufe [1] Pandeiro [2] A frame drum brought to Iberia by Muslims and played mainly by women. [3] Used in the charamba in Portugal, a circle dance for couples. [3] The adufe is a square or rectangular frame drum usually made of pine, over which is mounted a goat's skin.
A further view is that the name derives from the Virgin Mary, as it was used by nuns to accompany hymns in honour of the Virgin. In England, during the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, any stringed keyboard instrument was often described as a virginals, and could equally apply to a harpsichord or possibly even a clavichord or spinet.
This variety of instrument came in two basic forms, a zither that had bridges and a zither without bridges. An 1878 depiction by Settei Hasegawa of a woman playing the koto. When the koto was first imported to Japan, the native word koto was a generic term for any and all Japanese stringed instruments.