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  2. List of string instruments - Wikipedia

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    Chitarra battente, a.k.a. "knocking guitar" (Italy) Clavichord (keyboard instrument) Clavinet (electric keyboard instrument) Đàn tam thập lục (Vietnam) Fiddlesticks; Hammered dulcimer; Harpejji; Jhallari; Khim (Thailand and Cambodia) Piano (Keyboard instrument) Santur/Santoor (Persia, India, Pakistan, Greece) Tsymbaly (Ukraine) Utogardon ...

  3. String instrument - Wikipedia

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    In musical instrument classification, string 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, like guitars, by plucking the strings with their fingers or a plectrum (pick), and others by hitting the ...

  4. Guitar - Wikipedia

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    The fifth course can be inferred because the instrument was known to play more than the sixteen notes possible with four. The guitar's strings were tuned in unison, so, in other words, it was tuned by placing a finger on the second fret of the thinnest string and tuning the guitar [17] bottom to top. The strings were a whole octave apart from ...

  5. String (music) - Wikipedia

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    String (music) Flatwound strings on a fretless bass guitar. In music, strings are long flexible structures on string instruments that produce sound through vibration. Strings are held under tension so that they can vibrate freely, but with control. This is to make the string vibrate at the desired pitch, with looser strings producing lower ...

  6. Guitarrón mexicano - Wikipedia

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    The guitarrón mexicano (Spanish for "big Mexican guitar", the suffix -ón being a Spanish augmentative) or Mexican guitarrón is a very large, deep-bodied Mexican six-string acoustic bass guitar played traditionally in Mariachi groups. Although similar to the guitar, it is not a derivative of that instrument, but was independently developed ...

  7. Bass guitar - Wikipedia

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    The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (/ beɪs /) is the lowest-pitched member of the guitar family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and scale length. The bass guitar most commonly has four strings, though five- and six-stringed models are ...