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The instrument's most commonly played relatives today are members of the mandolin family and the bandurria. The mandore arrived in France from Spain, and was considered a new instrument in French music books from the 1580s, [4] but can be seen as a development of the gittern. [5] [6] In Spain the mandore was called vandola.
The clavichord is an example of a period instrument. In the historically informed performance movement, musicians perform classical music using restored or replicated versions of the instruments for which it was originally written. Often performances by such musicians are said to be "on authentic instruments".
Dating to c. 13,000 BC, a cave painting in the Trois Frères cave in France depicts what some believe is a musical bow, a hunting bow used as a single-stringed musical instrument. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] From the musical bow, families of stringed instruments developed; since each string played a single note, adding strings added new notes, creating bow ...
Arcadia (painting) The Archdukes Albert and Isabella Visiting a Collector's Cabinet; Arearea; Around the Piano; The Art of Painting; As the Old Sang, So the Young Pipe (Jordaens, Antwerp) As the Old Sang, So the Young Pipe (Jordaens, Valenciennes) Ascension of Christ (Perugino, Lyon) The Attributes of Civilian and Military Music
Antonio Stradivari, by Edgar Bundy, 1893: a romanticized image of a craftsman-hero. A Stradivarius is one of the string instruments, such as violins, violas, cellos, and guitars, crafted by members of the Stradivari family, particularly Antonio Stradivari (Latin: Antonius Stradivarius), in Cremona, Italy, during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
The string "courses", unlike those of a Renaissance lute or archlute, were often single, although double stringing was also used. Typically, theorbos have 14 courses, though some used 15 or even 19 courses . This is theorbo tuning in A. Modern theorbo players usually play 14-course (string) instruments (lowest course is G).
The first Italian viols (or "violoni" as they were often called) soon began to take on many characteristics of the precursors to the violin, such as separate tail pieces, and arched bridges that let the player sound one string at a time. [4] (Though paintings like Jan Brueghel the Elder's "The Rustic Wedding" [5] and Jambe de Fer in Epitome ...
Long String Instrument, (by Ellen Fullman, strings are rubbed in, and vibrate in the longitudinal mode) Magnetic resonance piano , (strings activated by electromagnetic fields) Stringed instruments with keyboards