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2. Junk rig - Wikipedia

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   The Keying was a Chinese ship that employed a junk sailing rig. Scale model of a Tagalog outrigger ship with junk sails from Manila, 19th century. The junk rig, also known as the Chinese lugsail, Chinese balanced lug sail, or sampan rig, is a type of sail rig in which rigid members, called battens, span the full width of the sail and extend the sail forward of the mast.

3. Qinqin - Wikipedia

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   The qinqin (秦 琴; pinyin: qínqín; Vietnamese: Đàn sến [1]) is a plucked Chinese lute. It was originally manufactured with a wooden body, a slender fretted neck, and three strings. [2] Its body can be round, [3] hexagonal (with rounded sides), or octagonal. Often, only two strings were used, as in certain regional silk-and-bamboo ...

4. Yueqin - Wikipedia

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   Regardless of the neck size or strings, all yueqin are tuned around the same treble pitch level. A common technique in performance is "snapping" the pick on the string (similar to Japanese shamisen.) Yueqin is the loudest member of the plucked lute family of Chinese instruments; one instrument can easily be heard over a full Chinese orchestra.

5. Guqin strings - Wikipedia

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   How the qin is traditionally strung; the strings wrap around the goose-feet. Strings 1 to 4 on the outer foot, and strings 5 to 7 on the inner foot. Image courtesy of Chinese Culture Net. There are a number of Chinese characters for the word string(s). 『絃』, 『弦』, 『線』 and 『綫』.

6. List of bass guitar manufacturers - Wikipedia

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   The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar but with a longer neck and scale length and most usually four strings. This is a partial list of Wikipedia articles about companies (past and present) under which electric bass guitars have been sold.

7. Yangqin - Wikipedia

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   From right to left, they are: bass bridge, "right bridge", tenor bridge, "left bridge", and the chromatic bridge. During playing, one is supposed to strike the strings on the left side of the bridges. However, the strings on the "chromatic bridge" are struck on the right, and strings on the "left bridge" can be struck on both sides of the bridge.