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2. List of chordophones by Hornbostel–Sachs number - Wikipedia

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   311.1 Musical bows - The string bearer is flexible (and curved). 311.11 Idiochord musical bows - The string is cut from the bark of the cane, remaining attached at each end. 311.111 Mono-idiochord musical bows - Containing one string only 311.112 Poly-idiochord musical bows or harp-bows - Containing several strings that pass over some type of ...

3. List of musical symbols - Wikipedia

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   Up bow or Sull'arco On a bowed string instrument, the note is played while drawing the bow upward. On a plucked string instrument played with a plectrum or pick (such as a guitar played pickstyle or a mandolin), the note is played with an upstroke. Down bow or Giù arco In contrast to the up bow, here the bow is drawn downward to create sound.

4. Guitar chord - Wikipedia

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   The implementation of chords using particular tunings is a defining part of the literature on guitar chords, which is omitted in the abstract musical-theory of chords for all instruments. For example, in the guitar (like other stringed instruments but unlike the piano ), open-string notes are not fretted and so require less hand-motion.

5. Guitar tunings - Wikipedia

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   The diagonal movement of chords is especially simple for the regular tunings that are repetitive, in which case chords can be moved vertically: Chords can be moved three strings up (or down) in major-thirds tuning, and chords can be moved two strings up (or down) in augmented-fourths tuning. Regular tunings thus appeal to new guitarists and ...

6. Bowed guitar - Wikipedia

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   Jónsi of Sigur Rós playing bowed guitar at the DCode Fest in Madrid in 2012. Bowed guitar is a method of playing a guitar, acoustic or electric, in which the guitarist uses a bow, rather than the more common plectrum, to vibrate the instruments' strings, similar to playing a viola da gamba.

7. String instrument - Wikipedia

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   Modern composers such as Henry Cowell wrote music that requires that the player reach inside the piano and pluck the strings directly, "bow" them with bow hair wrapped around the strings, or play them by rolling the bell of a brass instrument such as a trombone on the array of strings. However, these are relatively rarely used special techniques.

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9. Barre chord - Wikipedia

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   To play an F ♯ chord the guitarist may barre strings so that the chord root is F ♯. Most barre chords are "moveable" chords, [1] as the player can move the whole chord shape up and down the neck. [2] Commonly used in both popular and classical music, barre chords are frequently used in combination with "open" chords, where the guitar's open ...