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  2. Tremoloa - Wikipedia

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    The tremoloa / ˈtreɪmoʊloʊwə /, [1] plural tremoloas, is a stringed instrument belonging to the fretless zither family. It was produced in United States in response to the rapid increase in popularity of Hawaiian music during the 1920s, and continued to be produced until the 1950s. [2] Musical collective Broken Social Scene features the ...

  3. Ukelin - Wikipedia

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    Ukelin. The ukelin is a stringed musical instrument made popular in the United States in the 1920s. It is a bowed psaltery with zither strings, and its name derives from the ukulele (which was first made in Portugal but was popularized in Hawaii) and the violin. It lost popularity prior to the 1970s because the instrument was difficult to play ...

  4. Zither - Wikipedia

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    Zithers (/ ˈzɪðər, ˈzɪθ -/; [1] German: [ˈtsɪtɐ], from the Greek word cithara) are a class of stringed instruments. Historically, it could be any instrument of the psaltery family. In modern terminology, it is more specifically an instrument consisting of many strings stretched across a thin, flat body, the topic of this article. [1 ...

  5. Ten-string guitar - Wikipedia

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    The viola guitar is a guitar with ten light steel strings in five courses, played with the fingers rather than with a plectrum. It is particularly prevalent in the folk music of Brazil, where it's called "viola caipira" (country guitar) or simply "viola." The viola braguesa and viola amarantina are other types of ten-string Portuguese folk ...

  6. Viola caipira - Wikipedia

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    The viola caipira, often simply viola or brazilian viola, [1] (Portuguese for country guitar) is a Brazilian ten-string guitar with five courses of strings arranged in pairs. [2] It was introduced in the state of São Paulo , where it is widely played as the basis for the música caipira , a type of folk - country music originating in the ...

  7. Banjo - Wikipedia

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    The Old Plantation, c. 1785–1795, the earliest known American painting to picture a banjo-like instrument, which shows a four-string instrument with its 4th (thumb) string shorter than the others; thought to depict a plantation in Beaufort County, South Carolina The oldest extant banjo, c. 1770–1777, from the Surinamese Creole culture.

  8. Old-time music - Wikipedia

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    Old-time music, especially if defined to include ballads and other vocal music, represents perhaps the oldest form of North American traditional music other than Native American music, and thus the term "old-time" is an appropriate one. In popular usage at 21st century fiddlers' conventions and summer music camps, it frequently describes styles ...

  9. Hardanger fiddle - Wikipedia

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    321.322-71. Related instruments. Fiddle. Violin. A Hardanger fiddle (Norwegian: hardingfele) is a traditional stringed instrument considered to be the national instrument of Norway. In modern designs, this type of fiddle is very similar to the violin, though with eight or nine strings (rather than four as on a standard violin) and thinner wood.

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