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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
This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones, membranophones, struck chordophones) [ edit ]
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 driving a loudspeaker
A vibrating string strung on a very thick log, as a hypothetical example, would make only a very quiet sound, so string instruments are usually constructed in such a way that the vibrating string is coupled to a hollow resonating chamber, a soundboard, or both. On the violin, for example, the four strings pass over a thin wooden bridge resting ...
Fretted stringed instrument with a hollow body 321.322: Puerto Rico: cuatro [118] Fretted stringed instrument with a hollow body, derived from the Spanish tiple and other stringed instruments, made from carved wood with strings (ten, in five sets of two) of leather strips or dried animal gut 321.322: Rome, Ancient: tibiae [119] aulos (Greek name)
The instruments are shown played with both plectrum and with fingers. [1] The names chrotta, rotte, rotta, rota and rote have been applied to different stringed instruments, including a psaltery, lyre and to a Crwth (necked lyre played as a fiddle or lute). [3] [5] [6] In the 15th century it was also used to name a fiddle, synonymous with the ...
The viola da gamba, or viol, or informally gamba, is a bowed and fretted string instrument that is played da gamba (on the leg; [a] Italian: [ˈvjɔːla da (ɡ)ˈɡamba]).It is distinct from the later violin, or viola da braccio (viol for the arm); and it is any one of the earlier viol family of bowed, fretted, and stringed instruments with hollow wooden bodies and pegboxes where the tension ...
This variety of instrument came in two basic forms, a zither that had bridges and a zither without bridges. An 1878 depiction by Settei Hasegawa of a woman playing the koto. When the koto was first imported to Japan, the native word koto was a generic term for any and all Japanese stringed instruments.