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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 ...
Wikimedia Commons has media related to String instruments. A string instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound with vibrating strings amplified by one or more of three main methods: Vibration of a sounding board via a bridge. Resonance of air in a sound box, often through a sound hole. Electric pickup for an instrument amplifier ...
The string section is composed of bowed instruments belonging to the violin family. It normally consists of first and second violins, violas, cellos, and double basses. It is the most numerous group in the standard orchestra. In discussions of the instrumentation of a musical work, the phrase "the strings" or "and strings" is used to indicate a ...
The Axelrod quartet of Stradivarius instruments, on display in the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History. From left to right: Greffuhle violin (1709), Axelrod viola (1696), Ole Bull violin (1687), and Marylebone cello (1688). Stradivarius violins at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... This is a list of medieval musical instruments used in European music during the Medieval ... String instruments. Citole [5] [6]
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, ... stringed instruments: Zhu (string instrument) chordophones: 3:
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 ...