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Apache fiddle (Apache) Apkhyarta (Abkhazia) Arpeggione. Banhu (China) Baryton. Bazantar (United States) Bowed dulcimer. Bowed guitar. Bowed psaltery (United States)
Steel-stringed instruments (such as the guitar, bass, violin, etc.) can be played using a magnetic field. An E-Bow is a small hand-held battery-powered device that magnetically excites the strings of an electric string instrument to provide a sustained, singing tone reminiscent of a held bowed violin note.
This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. Percussion instruments (idiophones and membranophones) [ edit ]
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to guitars: A guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Most guitar necks have metal frets attached (the exception is fretless bass ...
Black Angels, subtitled "Thirteen Images from the Dark Land", is a work for "electric string quartet " by the American avant-garde composer George Crumb. It was composed over the course of a year and is dated "Friday the Thirteenth, March 1970 (in tempore belli)" as written on the score. [1] The Latin phrase in tempore belli, in time of war ...
Wikimedia Commons has media related to String instruments. 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 ...
The cuatro is a family of Latin American string instruments played in Colombia, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and other Latin American countries. It is derived from the Spanish guitar. Although some have viola -like shapes, most cuatros resemble a small to mid-sized classical guitar. In Puerto Rico and Venezuela, the cuatro is an ensemble instrument ...
Harpejji. The harpejji (/ hɑːrˈpɛdʒiː / har-PEJ-ee) [1] is an electric stringed musical instrument developed in 2007 by American audio engineer Tim Meeks. [2][3] It can be described as a cross between a piano and a guitar, [1][4] or as a cross between an accordion and a pedal steel guitar. [5] The playing surface has a layout arranged in ...