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Ancient kings playing an organistrum at the Pórtico de la Gloria in the Catedral de Santiago de Compostela in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The hurdy-gurdy is generally thought to have originated from fiddles in either Europe or the Middle East (e.g., the rebab instrument) before the eleventh century A.D. [2] The first recorded reference to fiddles in Europe was in the 9th century by the ...
The cittern or cithren (Fr. cistre, It. cetra, Ger. Cister, Sp. cistro, cedra, cítola) [1] is a stringed instrument dating from the Renaissance.Modern scholars debate its exact history, but it is generally accepted that it is descended from the medieval citole (or cytole).
Season 27 of the singing competition, which premieres on Feb. 3 at 8 p.m. ET on NBC, will include Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine, crooner Michael Bublé, singer and "The Voice" veteran John Legend ...
Long String Instrument, (by Ellen Fullman, strings are rubbed in, and vibrate in the longitudinal mode) Magnetic resonance piano , (strings activated by electromagnetic fields) Stringed instruments with keyboards
"on the E", indicating a passage is to be played on the E string of a violin. Also seen: sul A, sul D, sul G, sul C, indicating a passage to be played on one of the other strings of a string instrument. suono reale Actual sound; primarily used with notated harmonics where the written pitch is also the sounding pitch sur la touche (Fr.) Sul tasto
Musicians play some string instruments, like guitars, by plucking the strings with their fingers or a plectrum (pick), and others by hitting the strings with a light wooden hammer or by rubbing the strings with a bow, like violins. In some keyboard instruments, such as the harpsichord, the musician presses a key that plucks the string. Other ...
Season 26 of The Voice airs at 8 p.m. ET tonight. There will only be one two-hour episode of The Voice this week; the Tuesday premiere of The Voice will be on Oct. 1 at 8 p.m. What channel is The ...
In brass instruments, the most common method of producing multiphonics is by simultaneously playing the instrument and singing into it. When the sung note has a different frequency than the played note (preferably within the harmonic series of the played note), several new notes that are the sums/differences of the frequencies of the sung note and the played note are produced; leading to the ...