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On bowed instruments, the need to play strings individually with the bow also limits the number of strings to about six or seven; with more strings, it would be impossible to select individual strings to bow. (Bowed strings can also play two bowed notes on two different strings at the same time, a technique called a double stop.)
Erhu sound. The erhu (Chinese: 二胡; pinyin: èrhú; [aɻ˥˩xu˧˥]) is a Chinese two-stringed bowed musical instrument, more specifically a spike fiddle, which may also be called a southern fiddle, and is sometimes known in the Western world as the Chinese violin or a Chinese two-stringed fiddle.
The organistrum had a single melody string and two drone strings, which ran over a common bridge, and a relatively small wheel. Due to its size, the organistrum was played by two people, one of whom turned the crank while the other pulled the keys upward. Pulling keys upward is cumbersome, so only slow tunes could be played on the organistrum. [4]
The tovshuur, also known as topshur or topshuur (Mongolian Cyrillic: товшуур; Mongolian: ᠲᠣᠪᠰᠢᠭᠤᠷ, romanized: tobshiğur) is a two- or three-stringed lute played by the Western Mongolian tribes called the Altai Urianghais, the Altais, Tuvans, and Khalkha peoples. [1]
Toggle Stringed instruments with keyboards subsection. 5.1 Struck. 5.2 Plucked. 5.3 Bowed. 5.4 Other/hybrid. 6 Stringed instruments by country. 7 See also. 8 References.
Gaohu – two-stringed fiddle, higher pitch than an erhu; also called yuehu (粤 胡) Banhu – two-stringed fiddle with a coconut resonator and wooden face, used primarily in northern China; Jinghu – two-stringed fiddle (piccolo erhu), very high pitched, used mainly for Beijing opera
The saw duang (Thai: ซอด้วง, pronounced [sɔː dûəŋ], RTGS: so duang) is a two-stringed instrument used in traditional Thai music.The sound is produced by the bow made from horsetail hair which goes between the strings made from silk.
The earliest stringed instruments were mostly plucked (for example, the Greek lyre). Two-stringed, bowed instruments, played upright and strung and bowed with horsehair, may have originated in the nomadic equestrian cultures of Central Asia, in forms closely resembling the modern-day Mongolian Morin huur and the Kazakh Kobyz.