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Apache fiddle (Apache) Apkhyarta (Abkhazia) Arpeggione. Banhu (China) Baryton. Bazantar (United States) Bowed dulcimer. Bowed guitar. Bowed psaltery (United States)
In musical instrument classification, string instruments or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner. Musicians play some string instruments, like guitars, by plucking the strings with their fingers or a plectrum (pick), and others by hitting the ...
This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones and membranophones) [ edit ]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to String instruments. A string instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound with vibrating strings amplified by one or more of three main methods: Vibration of a sounding board via a bridge. Resonance of air in a sound box, often through a sound hole. Electric pickup for an instrument amplifier ...
The standard modern violin family consists of the violin, viola, cello, and (possibly) double bass. [3][4][5] Instrument names in the violin family are all derived from the root viola, which is a derivative of the Medieval Latin word vitula (meaning "stringed instrument"). [6] A violin is a "little viola", a violone is a "big viola" or a bass ...
The Axelrod quartet of Stradivarius instruments, on display in the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History. From left to right: Greffuhle violin (1709), Axelrod viola (1696), Ole Bull violin (1687), and Marylebone cello (1688). Stradivarius violins at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
A medieval instrument, labeled nagaveena (snake veena), is a type of musical scraper. Chigggjha – fire tong with brass jingles. Chengila – metal disc. Eltathalam. Gegvrer – brass vessel. Ghaynti – Northern Indian bell. Ghatam and Matkam (Earthenware pot drum)
Liuhu (六胡) – six-stringed fiddle of Mongolian people in Inner Mongolia. Sihu (四胡) – four-stringed fiddle with strings tuned in pairs. Sanhu (三胡) – 3-stringed erhu with an additional bass string; developed in the 1970s. Zhuihu (simplified Chinese : 坠胡; traditional Chinese : 墜胡) – two-stringed fiddle with fingerboard.
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