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Stringed instruments hanging on a wall. Shown here are 4 Ukuleles, 2 Mandolins, a Banjo, a Guitar, a Violin, a Guraitar and a Bass guitar. Qanún/kanun, origin from ancient Mesopotamia Kantele. Plucked string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by plucking the strings. Plucking is a way of pulling and releasing ...
String instrument; Classification (Chordophone), String instrumentHornbostel–Sachs classification: 314.122-5,6 (Resonated box zither, plucked by fingers or a plectrum) ...
A plectrum is a small flat tool used for plucking or strumming of a stringed instrument. For hand-held instruments such as guitars and mandolins, the plectrum is often called a pick and is held as a separate tool in the player's hand. In harpsichords, the plectra are attached to the jack mechanism.
A Corsican cetara. The cetera or cetara is a plucked string instrument played in Corsica.It has sixteen, or sometimes eighteen, metal strings, running in paired courses, [1] with a body similar to the mandolin, but larger, and is plucked with a plectrum made of horn or tortoiseshell.
Nation Instrument Description Recording H-S number Image Afghanistan: rubab [6] [7] rabab: Short-necked three-stringed lute with sympathetic and drone strings, fretted and plucked with a plectrum, with a double-chambered body, the lower part of which is covered in skin, and with three main strings
The shamisen is a plucked stringed instrument. [1] Its construction follows a model similar to that of a guitar or a banjo, with a neck and strings stretched across a resonating body. The neck of the shamisen is fretless and slimmer than that of a guitar or banjo.
Medieval lutes were four- and five-course instruments, plucked with a quill as a plectrum. There were several sizes and, by the end of the Renaissance, seven sizes (up to the great octave bass) are documented. Song accompaniment was probably the lute's primary function in the Middle Ages, but very little music securely attributable to the lute ...
The instrument can be either finger picked or plucked with a plectrum. It was invented in October 1962 by Lyle Mayfield of Greenville, Illinois . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The guitalin is a non-traditional, hybrid folk instrument, as it incorporates features of multiple traditional folk instruments into one.