In musical instrument classification, string instruments, or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer...

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...

This is a list of string instruments. Agiarut (Alaska) Ainu fiddle (Ainu) Ajaeng (Korea) Alexander violin (United States) Anzad (Tuareg) Apache fiddle...

Plucked string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by plucking the strings. Plucking is a way of pulling and releasing...

The tar (from Persian: تار, lit. 'string') is a long-necked, waisted lute family instrument, used by many cultures and countries including Iran, Azerbaijan...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. AlphaSphere Audiocubes Bass pedals Continuum...

In music, strings are long flexible structures on string instruments that produce sound through vibration. Strings are held under tension so that they...

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...

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...

long air column or string, the string and wind bass instruments are usually the largest instruments in their families or instrument classes. A difficulty...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Kingri (string instrument) Mayuri Vina or Taus Onavillu Behala (violin type) Pena (musical instrument) Pinaka vina Pulluvan Veena - one stringed violin...

On a string instrument, position is the relative location of the hand on the instrument's neck, indicated by ordinal numbers (e.g., 3rd). Fingering, independent...

Playing a string harmonic (a flageolet) is a string instrument technique that uses the nodes of natural harmonics of a musical string to isolate overtones...

vitula." The earliest stringed instruments were mostly plucked (for example, the Greek lyre). Two-stringed, bowed instruments, played upright and strung...

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...

The National String Instrument Corporation was an American guitar company first formed to manufacture banjos and then the original resonator guitars....

The String (2009), a French film String (music), the flexible element that produces vibrations and sound in string instruments String instrument, a musical...

ruan (Chinese: 阮; pinyin: ruǎn) is a traditional Chinese plucked string instrument. It is a lute with a fretted neck, a circular body, and four strings...

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...

The guqin ([kùtɕʰǐn] ; Chinese: 古琴) is a plucked seven-string Chinese musical instrument. It has been played since ancient times, and has traditionally...

Shastra describes a seven-string instrument and other string instruments in 35 verses, and then explains how the instrument should be played. The technique...