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Lutes are stringed musical instruments that include a body and "a neck which serves both as a handle and as a means of stretching the strings beyond the body". [1]The lute family includes not only short-necked plucked lutes such as the lute, oud, pipa, guitar, citole, gittern, mandore, rubab, and gambus and long-necked plucked lutes such as banjo, tanbura, bağlama, bouzouki, veena, theorbo ...
The sitar (English: / ˈ s ɪ t ɑːr / or / s ɪ ˈ t ɑːr /; IAST: sitāra) is a plucked stringed instrument, originating from the Indian subcontinent, used in Hindustani classical music. The instrument was invented in the 18th century, and arrived at its present form in 19th-century India.
Chitrali sitar; Chonguri; Çifteli (Albania) Citole; Cittern (Early Modern Britain) Bell cittern; Concheras. Mandolina conchera or concheras de mandolinas; Vihuela conchera or concheras de vihuelas; Guitarra conchera or concheras de guirarras; Crwth; Cuatro antiguo; Cuatro cubano; Cuatro (Puerto Rico and Venezuela) Venezuela Cuatro; Puerto Rico ...
Fender has also built some 3/4-size student guitars with a scale length of 22.5 inches (570 mm) or shorter. Gibson uses a scale length of 24 + 3 ⁄ 4 inches (630 mm) on most of its electric guitars, including the ES-335, Les Paul, SG, Flying V, and Explorer. Gibson has used other scale lengths on various models through the years.
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List of musical scales and modes Name Image Sound Degrees Intervals Integer notation # of pitch classes Lower tetrachord Upper tetrachord Use of key signature usual or unusual ; 15 equal temperament
Robert Lundberg, in his book Historical Lute Construction, suggests ancient builders placed bars according to whole-number ratios of the scale length and belly length. He further suggests the inward bend of the soundboard (the "belly scoop") is a deliberate adaptation by ancient builders to afford the lutenist's right hand more space between ...
Producer Graham King's company GK Films (also behind the 2018 Oscar-winning Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody) announced in May 2024 that Michael had finished filming.. Once slated for an April 18 ...