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The erhu (Chinese: 二胡; pinyin: èrhú; [aɻ˥˩xu˧˥]) is a Chinese two-stringed bowed musical instrument, more specifically a spike fiddle, that is sometimes known in the Western world as the Chinese violin or a Chinese two-stringed fiddle. It is used as a solo instrument as well as in small ensembles and large orchestras.
Illustration from a Bible dating back to 1648AD. A number of Slavic folk music instruments have names which are related to Gusli such as the Czech violin housle and the Balkan one-stringed fiddle gusle. In western Ukraine and Belarus, husli can also refer to a fiddle or even a ducted flute. The violin-like variant of the instrument is also ...
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
Erhu, chinese version of the Khuuchir Sihu (Four string). The khuuchir is a bowed musical instrument of Mongolia. [1]The mongolian Khuuchir (also Huuchir) is considered the predecessor of chinese instruments like the more popular of the hu'kin or Huqin instruments, the "erhu", —er meaning two in chinese, referring to the two strings of the instrument, and Hu meaning foreign, or barbarian.
Rebec player with 3-string instrument Rabel or possibly rebec. Line around edge of soundboard indicates this instrument had a skin soundboard. 11th century A.D. Rebec or fiddle from Harley manuscript 4951, folio 297V in the British Library. 1330 A.D. Pamplona Cathedral. Rebec player with 2-string instrument. Rotte: Circa 1100 A.D., Italy.
cistro, cedra, cítola) [1] is a stringed instrument dating from the Renaissance. Modern scholars debate its exact history, but it is generally accepted that it is descended from the medieval citole (or cytole). Its flat-back design was simpler and cheaper to construct than the lute. It was also easier to play, smaller, less delicate and more ...
Other "Clabiorganos" or "claui organos" are documented in Spain by the year 1500, and the instrument seems to have spread from there. [3] A number of "virgynalls with regals " are mentioned in the inventories of Henry VIII in 1542/3 and 1547 and Wilson Barry [ 4 ] cites references to the claviorganum in England dating back to the 1530s.
The cythara is a wide group of stringed instruments of medieval and Renaissance Europe, including not only the lyre and harp but also necked, string instruments. [1] In fact, unless a medieval document gives an indication that it meant a necked instrument, then it likely was referring to a lyre.