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List Of String Instruments
This is a list of string instruments. Bowed * Agiarut (Alaska) * Ainu fiddle (Ainu) * Ajaeng (Korea) * Alexander violin (United States) * Anzad * apache fiddle (Apache) * Apkhyarta (Abkhazia) * Arpeggione * Banhu (China) * Baryton * Bazantar (United States) * Bowed dulcimer * Bowed guitar * Bowed psaltery (United States) * Byzaanchy (Tuva) * Byzantine lyra (Greece) * Calabrian Lira (Italy) * Cello ** Electric cello **Cello da spalla * Chagane (Azerbaijan) * Chikara (India) * Chiwang (Bhutan) * Chrotta (Wales) * Chuniri (Georgia) * Cimboa (cape verde) * Cizhonghu (China) * Cornstalk fiddle * Cretan lyra (Greece) * Crwth (Wales) * Daguangxian * Dahu (China) * Đàn gáo (Vietnam) * Đàn hô (Vietnam) * Đàn nhi (Vietnam) * datong * Daxophone * Dhantara (India) * Dihu (China) * Diyingehu (China) * donskory Ryley (Russia) * Double bass ** Electric double bass * Drejelire * ducheke (amur) * dūda (latvia) * endingidi (Uganda) * Enneg (Mexico) * Erhu (C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
String Instrument
String instruments, stringed instruments, or chordophones are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner. Musicians play some string instruments by plucking the strings with their fingers or a plectrum—and others by hitting the strings with a light wooden hammer or by rubbing the strings with a bow. In some keyboard instruments, such as the harpsichord, the musician presses a key that plucks the string. Other musical instruments generate sound by striking the string. With bowed instruments, the player pulls a rosined horsehair bow across the strings, causing them to vibrate. With a hurdy-gurdy, the musician cranks a wheel whose rosined edge touches the strings. Bowed instruments include the string section instruments of the orchestra in Western classical music (violin, viola, cello and double bass) and a number of other instruments (e.g., viols and gambas used in early music from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Calabrian Lira
The Calabrian lira ( it, lira Calabrese) is a traditional musical instrument characteristic of some areas of Calabria, region in southern Italy. Characteristics The lira of Calabria is a bowed string instrument with three strings. Like most bowed liras, it is played upright, usually supported on the knee, held with the left hand touching the strings with the nails laterally while the right hand moves the bow. The repertory of the lira includes accompaniment songs (e.g. serenades and songs of anger) and songs suitable for dancing (tarantellas). The repertory of this traditional instrument is known only through records of older players, or people who have known them. On the other hand, in recent years an increased interest around this instrument has led to its use by music groups of traditional music and to the appearance of new manufacturers in different parts of Calabria. Origin The Calabrian lira is closely related to the bowed lira (Greek: ''λύρα'') of the Byzantine Emp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crwth
The crwth (, also called a crowd or rote or crotta) is a bowed lyre, a type of stringed instrument, associated particularly with Welsh music, now archaic but once widely played in Europe. Four historical examples have survived and are to be found in St Fagans National Museum of History (Cardiff); National Library of Wales (Aberystwyth); Warrington Museum & Art Gallery; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (US). Origin of the name The name ' is Welsh, derived from a Proto-Celtic noun ''*-'' ("round object") which refers to a swelling or bulging out, a pregnant appearance or a protuberance, and it is speculated that it came to be used for the instrument because of its bulging shape. Other Celtic words for violin also have meanings referring to rounded appearances. In Gaelic, for example, "" can mean "hump" or "hunch" as well as harp or violin. Like several other English loanwords from Welsh, the name is one of the few words in the English language in which the letter W is used as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cretan Lyra
) * Lira da braccio * Rabāb (Arabic الرباب) * Lijerica * Violin , musicians = * Andreas Rodinos * Alekos Karavitis * Antonis Papadakis (Kareklas) * Kostas Mountakis * Nikos Xilouris * Psarantonis * Ross Daly * Yiorgos Kaloudis * Thanassis Skordalos * Georgia Dagaki The Cretan lyra ( el, Κρητική λύρα) is a Greek pear-shaped, three-stringed bowed musical instrument, central to the traditional music of Crete and other islands in the Dodecanese and the Aegean Archipelago, in Greece. The Cretan lyra is considered to be the most popular surviving form of the medieval Byzantine lyra, an ancestor of most European bowed instruments. Playing style The lyra is held vertically on the player's lap, in the same way as a small viol, rather than being placed under the chin of the player like a violin. For normal right-handed playing, the player's right hand holds the bow. The strings are stopped by pressing the fingernails of the player's left hand again ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cizhonghu
The dahu ( 大 胡, pinyin: ''dàhú'') is a large bowed string instrument from China. It has a large soundbox covered on one end with python skin. Like most other members of the huqin family of instruments, it has two strings and is held vertically. The instrument is generally pitched one octave below the ''erhu'', and is considerably larger than the ''erhu''. Its name derives from the Chinese word for "large" (''dà''), and the word ''hú'' (short for ''huqin''). Its bridge is often placed somewhat above the center of the snakeskin to avoid stretching the skin. The ''dahu'' is sometimes also called ''cizhonghu''. It is also referred to as ''xiaodihu'', being the same instrument as the smallest of the three sizes of ''dihu'' (large ''huqin'' instruments), the others being the ''zhongdihu'' and ''dadihu''. History The ''dahu'' was developed in the 1930s as the tenor member of the ''erhu'' family (the ''erhu'' being the soprano member and the ''zhonghu'' being the alto member) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cimboa
The ''cimboa'' (), also known as the ''cimbó'' , is a musical instrument from Cape Verde. It is a bowed chordophone that was traditionally used to be played with the batuque dances. The ''cimboa'' is composed of the instrument proper and its bow. The instrument belongs to the lute family, and so it possesses a neck attached to a sound box. The sound box is made of a calebash, or when it is hard to find, with a coconut shell, with a soundboard of stretched kid skin, fixed with reed pieces. Attached to the sound box there is a neck made of flexible wood (pine). At the end of the neck is a tuning peg of mahogany to tune the sole string of the instrument which is stretched between the nut set in the neck, and the bridge placed on the soundboard. The bow is made of a curved wood (called '' barnelo'' in Cape Verde) piece and strung with horse mane. Sound is produced by rubbing the bow on the instrument's string, which is also made of horse mane. The pitch of the note ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuniri
The chuniri ( ka, ჭუნირი) is a bowed musical instrument of Georgia. Only the mountain inhabitants of Georgia preserve the bowed chuniri in its original form. This instrument is considered to be a national instrument of Svaneti and is thought to have spread in the other regions of Georgia from there. Chuniri has different names in different regions: in Khevsureti, Tusheti (Eastern mountainous parts) its name is chuniri, and in Racha, Guria (western parts of Georgia) ''chianuri''. Chuniri is used for accompaniment. It is often played in an ensemble with changi (harp) and salamuri (flute). Both men and women played it. Accompaniment of solo songs, national heroic poems and dance melodies were performed on it in Svaneti. Chuniri and changi are often played together in an ensemble when performing polyphonic songs. More than one Chianuri at a time is not used. Chianuri is kept in a warm place. Often, especially in rainy days it was warmed in the sun or near fireplace befo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chrotta
The chrotta, was a musical instrument played in Ireland, whose exact description is contested. According to Irish historian Gratton Flood, it was a small harp played with a bow. The instrument could be rested on knees or on a table. Flood notes that the historian Gerbert had described the chrotta as an oblong instrument with six strings, four of which on a fingerboard and two off of it. Historian Carl Engel noted that a 6th-century CE Italian writer, Venantius Fortunatus, had mentioned the "Chrotta Britanna" in a poem, but did not mention any bow. See also *Crwth The crwth (, also called a crowd or rote or crotta) is a bowed lyre, a type of stringed instrument, associated particularly with Welsh music, now archaic but once widely played in Europe. Four historical examples have survived and are to be fo ..., a similar Welsh instrument References {{reflist Bowed lyres Irish musical instruments Early musical instruments Lost and extinct musical instruments ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiwang
The chiwang (Dzongkha: སྤྱི་དབང་; Wylie: ''spyi-dbang'') is a type of fiddle played in Bhutan. The chiwang, the lingm (flute), and the dramyen (lute) comprise the basic instrumental inventory for traditional Bhutanese folk music. Although the chiwang is considered typically Bhutanese, it is a variety of the piwang, a Tibetan two-stringed fiddle. It is heavily associated with boedra, one of two dominant genres of Bhutanese folk music, in which it symbolizes a horse. See also *Boedra *Music of Bhutan The music of Bhutan is an integral part of its culture and plays a leading role in transmitting social values. Traditional Bhutanese music includes a spectrum of subgenres, ranging from folk to religious song and music. Some genres of traditional ... References Himalayan musical instruments Bhutanese musical instruments String instruments Bowed instruments {{Zither-instrument-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chikara (instrument)
The chikara is a bowed stringed musical instrument from India, used to play indian folk music. It is used by the tribal people of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. Description The chikara is a simple spike fiddle played, similarly to the sarangi or sarinda, by sliding fingernails on the strings rather than pressing them to touch the fingerboard. It has 3 strings, two horse hair and one steel, in 3 courses and is tuned C, F, G. Ambiguity The term "chikara" is often used ambiguously to describe a variety of unrelated folk fiddles of northern india. Related Instruments *Chikari, smaller version of chikara. *Sarangi The sārangī is a bowed, short-necked string instrument played in traditional music from South Asia – Punjabi folk music, Rajasthani folk music, and Boro folk music (there known as the ''serja'') – in Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. It is ... References {{Reflist String instruments Indian musical instruments Bengali music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chagane
The Chagane ( az, cağan, çəqanə, ka, ჩაგანი) is an Azerbaijani four-stringed bowed musical instrument. Its range is F#2 to F#5. While played, instrument is held in a vertical position. Sound is produced with a bow in the right hand. The total length of the instrument is 820 mm, the body length is 420 mm, the width is 220 mm, and the height is 140 mm. Chagane was painted by Grigory Gagarin Prince Grigory Grigorievich Gagarin (russian: link=no, Григорий Григорьевич Гагарин, - ) was a Russian painter, Major General and administrator. His paternal grandparents were Prince Ivan Sergeievich Gagarin and wife. H ... in his painting "Shemakha dancers" among other music instruments. References {{Azerbaijani musical instruments Azerbaijani musical instruments Bowed instruments String instruments ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
