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  2. List of period instruments - Wikipedia

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    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".

  3. Mandore (instrument) - Wikipedia

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    The tunes in the Skene Manuscript are for a mandore tuned in fourths and fifths. Dauney points out in his editing of the Skene Manuscript that the tablature is written strangely, that although it is tabbed for a four-string instrument, it is marked under the bottom line, indicating a five-string instrument: [25] A-D-A-D-A

  4. Cittern - Wikipedia

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    The cittern or cithren (Fr. cistre, It. cetra, Ger. Cister, Sp. 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).

  5. Clavichord - Wikipedia

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    The clavichord is a stringed rectangular keyboard instrument [1] that was used largely in the Late Middle Ages, through the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras. [2] Historically, it was mostly used as a practice instrument and as an aid to composition, not being loud enough for larger performances. [ 2 ]

  6. Category:Musical instruments in art - Wikipedia

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    A Dance to the Music of Time (painting) La Danse (Carpeaux) The Daphnephoria (Leighton) David (Bernini) David Before the Ark of the Covenant; The Death of General Mercer at the Battle of Princeton, January 3, 1777; Declaration of Independence (painting) Doña María de Aragón Altarpiece; Donizetti Monument; The Dream of Ossian; The Dream ...

  7. History of the mandolin - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. List of string instruments - Wikipedia

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    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

  9. Category:1700s paintings - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "1700s paintings" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.