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    In musical instrument classification, string instruments, or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer...
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  • Bowed string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by a bow rubbing the strings. The bow rubbing the string causes vibration...
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  • This is a list of string instruments. Agiarut (Alaska) Ainu fiddle (Ainu) Ajaeng (Korea) Alexander violin (United States) Anzad (Tuareg) Apache fiddle...
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    Plucked string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by plucking the strings. Plucking is a way of pulling and releasing...
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    The tar (from Persian: تار, lit. 'string') is a long-necked, waisted lute family instrument, used by many cultures and countries including Iran, Azerbaijan...
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  • The nuts of some common instruments A nut, on a stringed musical instrument, is a small piece of hard material that supports the strings at the end closest...
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    This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. AlphaSphere Audiocubes Bass pedals Continuum...
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    However, 琴 (koto) is the general term for all string instruments in the Japanese language, including instruments such as the kin no koto, sō no koto, yamato-goto...
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  • Banjo (redirect from Banjo instrument)
    The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, in modern...
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  • The String (2009), a French film String (music), the flexible element that produces vibrations and sound in string instruments String instrument, a musical...
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    In music, strings are long flexible structures on string instruments that produce sound through vibration. Strings are held under tension so that they...
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  • The long-string instrument is a musical instrument in which the string is of such a length that the fundamental transverse wave is below what a person...
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    acoustic instruments, is fuller and more harmonically resonant than six-string instruments. The 12-string guitar can be played like a 6-string guitar as...
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  • length of a string instrument is the maximum vibrating length of the strings that produce sound, and determines the range of tones that string can produce...
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    long air column or string, the string and wind bass instruments are usually the largest instruments in their families or instrument classes. A difficulty...
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  • used. Instruments in the silk category include: Guqin (Chinese: 古琴; pinyin: gǔqín) – 7-stringed zithers Se (Chinese: 瑟; pinyin: sè) – 25-stringed zither...
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  • String instruments are capable of producing a variety of extended technique sounds. These alternative playing techniques have been used extensively since...
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    Kingri (string instrument) Mayuri Vina or Taus Onavillu Behala (violin type) Pena (musical instrument) Pinaka vina Pulluvan Veena - one stringed violin...
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  • This is a chart of stringed instrument tunings. Instruments are listed alphabetically by their most commonly known name. A course may consist of one or...
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  • The National String Instrument Corporation was an American guitar company first formed to manufacture banjos and then the original resonator guitars....
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    Double bass (redirect from String bass)
    ledger lines below the staff. The double bass is the only modern bowed string instrument that is tuned in fourths (like a bass guitar, viol, or the lowest-sounding...
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    The kora (Manding languages: ߞߐߙߊ kɔra) is a stringed instrument used extensively in West Africa. A kora typically has 21 strings, which are played by...
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    Violin (redirect from Violin (instrument))
    vitula." The earliest stringed instruments were mostly plucked (for example, the Greek lyre). Two-stringed, bowed instruments, played upright and strung...
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    (筑; pinyin: zhù (Mainland); zhú (Taiwan)) was an ancient Chinese string instrument. Though rarely used, three very old specimens in varying degrees of...
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    Veena (redirect from Veena (Instrument))
    Shastra describes a seven-string instrument and other string instruments in 35 verses, and then explains how the instrument should be played. The technique...
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    These instruments may still be found in use in Mexico, although the modern six-string instrument has become far more common. Seven-string instruments retain...
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    musical instruments. One plays a musical instrument by interacting with it in some way — for example, by plucking the strings on a string instrument, striking...
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    instruments, known as wagakki (和楽器) in Japanese, are musical instruments used in the traditional folk music of Japan. They comprise a range of string...
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  • be heard in the harmonies and stringed instruments. Pre-Columbian Andean music was played on drums and string instruments, like the European pipe and tabor...
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    The bağlama or saz is a family of plucked string instruments and long-necked lutes used in Ottoman classical music, Turkish folk music, Turkish Arabesque...
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