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Guitar
The guitar is a musical instrument with ancient roots, used in a wide variety of musical styles, and it is also a solo classical instrument. It is recognized as one of the primary instruments in blues, country, flamenco, rock music and many forms of pop. The guitar usually has six strings, but four, seven, eight, ten, and twelve string guitars also exist. Guitars are made and repaired by luthiers. Guitars may be played acoustically or they may rely on an amplifier that usually allows for... More »
Bass guitar
The electric bass guitar is an electrically-amplified string instrument played with the fingers by plucking, slapping, or using a pick. The bass is typically similar in appearance to an electric guitar, but with a larger body, a longer neck and scale length, and, usually, four or five strings tuned in fourths, one octave lower in pitch than the bass strings of a guitar. Since the 1950s, the electric bass has largely replaced the double bass in popular music. More »
Piano
''Piano'' is the general name given to a musical instrument classified as a keyboard, percussion, or string instrument, depending on the system of classification used. The piano produces sound by striking steel strings with felt hammers that immediately rebound allowing the string to continue vibrating at its resonant frequency. These vibrations are transmitted through the bridges to the soundboard, which amplifies them. The piano is widely used in western music for solo performance,... More »
Violin
The violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello. A violin is sometimes informally called a fiddle, no matter what kind of music is played on it. The word "violin" comes to us through the Romance languages from the Middle Latin word ''vitula'', meaning "stringed instrument"; this word may also be the source of the Germanic... More »
Lute
Lute can refer to: *Any plucked string instrument with a fretted neck and a deep round back, as well as *specifically an instrument from the family of European lutes. The European lute and the Near-Eastern oud both descend from a common ancestor, with diverging evolutionary paths. The words 'lute' and 'oud' may have derived from Arabic ''al‘ud'', "the wood", though recent research by Eckhard Neubauer suggests that ''‘ud'' may simply be an Arabized version of the Persian name ''rud'',... More »
Harpsichord
A harpsichord is any of a family of European keyboard instruments, including the large instrument currently called a harpsichord, but also the smaller virginals, the muselar or muselaar virginals and the spinet. All these instruments generate sound by plucking a string rather than striking one, as in a piano or clavichord. More »
String instrument
A string instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. In the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification, used in organology, they are called chordophones. The most common string instruments in Western music are those in the violin, piano and guitar families. More »
Mandolin
A mandolin is a small, stringed musical instrument which is plucked, strummed or a combination of both. It is descended from the mandora. It normally has eight metal strings in four pairs that are plucked with a plectrum. Four-string , twelve-string , and sixteen-string variants also exist. It has a body with a teardrop-shaped soundtable , or one that is essentially oval in shape, with a soundhole, or soundholes, of varying shapes that are open and not latticed. More »
Cello
The violoncello, almost always abbreviated to cello, or 'cello , is a bowed stringed instrument, the lowest-sounding member of the violin family. A person who plays a cello is called a cellist. The cello is used as a solo instrument, in chamber music, and as a member of the string section of an orchestra. More »
Double bass
The double bass is the largest and lowest pitched bowed string instrument used in the modern symphony orchestra. It is used extensively in Western classical music as a standard member of the string section of symphony orchestras and smaller string ensembles. In addition, it is used in other genres such as jazz, blues, rock and roll, rockabilly, psychobilly, and bluegrass. As with many other string instruments, the double bass is played with a bow or by plucking the strings . More »
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