stringed instrument
stringed instrument
stringed instrument
| Noun | 1. |  stringed instrument - a musical instrument in which taut strings provide the source of sound |
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stringed instrumentstringed instrument,any musical instrument whose tone is produced by vibrating strings. Those whose strings are plucked with the finger or a plectrum include the balalaikabalalaika, Russian stringed musical instrument, with a triangular body and a long fretted neck fretted instrument. Usually there are three strings, which are generally plucked with a pick. ..... Click the link for more information. , banjobanjo, stringed musical instrument, with a body resembling a tambourine. The banjo consists of a hoop over which a skin membrane is stretched; it has a long, often fretted neck and four to nine strings, which are plucked with a pick or the fingers. ..... Click the link for more information. , guitarguitar, musical instrument related to the lute, modern guitars normally having six strings that are plucked with the fingers or strummed with a pick. Earlier versions had pairs of strings like the lute. ..... Click the link for more information. , harpharp, stringed musical instrument of ancient origin, the strings of which are plucked with the fingers. Harps were found in paintings from the 13th cent. B.C. at Thebes. In different forms it was played by peoples of nearly all lands throughout the ages. ..... Click the link for more information. , lutelute, musical instrument that has a half-pear-shaped body, a fretted neck, and a variable number of strings, which are plucked with the fingers. The long lute, with its neck much longer than its body, seems to have been older than the short lute, existing very early in the ..... Click the link for more information. , mandolinmandolin , musical instrument of the lute family, with a half-pear-shaped body, a fretted neck, and a variable number of strings, plucked with the fingers or with a plectrum. The earlier mandolin, with five double strings, was developed from the mandola, a 17th-century lute. ..... Click the link for more information. , zitherzither , stringed musical instrument, derived from the psaltery and the dulcimer. It has a flat sound box over which are stretched from 30 to 45 strings; these are plucked with the fingers and a plectrum. In the 18th cent. ..... Click the link for more information. , the sitarsitar , fretted string instrument with a gourdlike body and a long neck, similar to the lute. It has from 3 to 7 gut strings, tuned in fourths or fifths (or both), and a lower course of 12 wire strings that vibrate sympathetically with the first set. ..... Click the link for more information. of India and Pakistan, the kotokoto , a Japanese string instrument related in structure to the zither. It consists of an elongated rectangular wooden body, strung lengthwise with 7 to 13 silk strings. The uniformly long strings are tuned to one of several standard tunings by moveable wooden bridges. ..... Click the link for more information. of Japan, and countless others. Those plucked by means of a keyboard include the harpsichordharpsichord, stringed musical instrument played from a keyboard. Its strings, two or more to a note, are plucked by quills or jacks. The harpsichord originated in the 14th cent. and by the 16th cent. Venice was the center of its manufacture. ..... Click the link for more information. and spinetspinet, musical instrument of the harpsichord family. Although the terms virginal and spinet, interchangeable until the end of the 17th cent., were sometimes used indiscriminately to designate any harpsichord, they usually referred to small instruments having one ..... Click the link for more information. . Those played with the bow are principally of the violviol, family of bowed stringed instruments, the most important ensemble instruments from the 15th to the 17th cent. The viol's early history is indefinite, but it is recognizable in depictions from as early as the 11th cent. During the second half of the 17th cent. ..... Click the link for more information. and violinviolin, family of stringed musical instruments having wooden bodies whose backs and fronts are slightly convex, the fronts pierced by two f-hole-shaped resonance holes. The instruments of the violin family have been the dominant bowed instruments because of their versatility, ..... Click the link for more information. families, the kemence of Turkey and Central Asia, the rebab of the Arab world and the many varieties of spike fiddle in Indonesia, Central Asia and elsewhere. Instruments whose strings are struck include the dulcimerdulcimer , stringed musical instrument. It is a wooden box with strings stretched over it that are struck with small mallets. The number of strings may vary. The dulcimer is related to the psaltery and modern zither. ..... Click the link for more information. of Europe and America, the santur of Iran, Iraq and other countries, and several keyboard instruments, among them the pianopiano or pianoforte, musical instrument whose sound is produced by vibrating strings struck by felt hammers that are controlled from a keyboard. The piano's earliest predecessor was the dulcimer. The first piano was made c. ..... Click the link for more information. and clavichordclavichord , keyboard musical instrument invented in the Middle Ages. It consists of a small rectangular wooden box, placed upon a table or on legs, containing a sounding board and a set of strings. ..... Click the link for more information. . Stringed Instrument(also chordophone), a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by stretched strings. Changes in the pitch of the sound are produced either by shortening the strings, as on the violin, or by using strings permanently tuned to a certain pitch within the range of the particular instrument, as on the piano. Most stringed instruments are made of various woods, with the soundboard made of resonant spruce or fir. Except for the strings themselves, metal is usually used only for fasteners and parts of the action. Stringed instruments are divided into several subgroups according to the method of producing the sound: bowed, plucked, hammered, keyboard hammered, and keyboard plucked instru ments. (SeeMUSICAL INSTRUMENTS). stringed instrument
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