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2. Chorus (audio effect) - Wikipedia

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   Although most acoustic instruments cannot produce a chorus effect by themselves, some instruments (particularly, chordophones with multiple courses of strings) can produce it as part of their own design. The effect can make these acoustic instruments sound fuller and louder than by using a single tone generator (b.e.: a single vibrating string ...

3. String instrument - Wikipedia

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   Other keyed string instruments, small enough for a strolling musician to play, include the plucked autoharp, the bowed nyckelharpa, and the hurdy-gurdy, which is played by cranking a rosined wheel. Steel-stringed instruments (such as the guitar, bass, violin, etc.) can be played using a magnetic field.

4. 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

5. Drone (sound) - Wikipedia

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   In music, a drone is a harmonic or monophonic effect or accompaniment where a note or chord is continuously sounded throughout most or all of a piece. A drone may also be any part of a musical instrument used to produce this effect; an archaic term for this is burden (bourdon or burdon) [1] [2] such as a "drone [pipe] of a bagpipe", [3] [4] the pedal point in an organ, or the lowest course of ...

6. Vibrato - Wikipedia

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   This could be achieved on string instruments by varying the speed of the bow, waving the hand, or rolling the bow in the fingers. On the organ, a similar effect is created by the tremulant. (Contradictory to his description, Hiller recommended string players vary the pitch by rolling the fingers to create the effect).

7. Whamola - Wikipedia

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   The Whamola is a bass instrument used in funk-jazz styles of music. The name is a portmanteau of whammy bar and viola . The Whamola is a direct descendant of the washtub bass , an American folk instrument popular with skiffle and jug bands , and features a single string which is manipulated via a pulley-and-lever system.

8. Bandurria - Wikipedia

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   It had become a flat-backed instrument by the 18th century, with five double courses of strings, tuned in fourths. [1] The original bandurrias of the Medieval period had three strings. During the Renaissance they gained a fourth string. During the Baroque period the bandurria had 10 strings (5 pairs). The modern bandurria has 12 strings (6 pairs).

9. Tremolo - Wikipedia

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   On plucked strings such as on a harp, the word bisbigliando (Italian pronunciation: [bizbiʎˈʎando]) or "whispering" is used. Tremolo picking, on traditionally plucked string instruments including guitar and mandolin, is the rapid articulation of single notes or a group of notes with a plectrum (pick) or with fingers. Tremolo playing sustains ...