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Ry Cooder plays slide guitar using an open tuning that allows major chords to be played by barring the strings anywhere along their length.. In music, a guitar chord is a set of notes played on a guitar.
Kolintang is a traditional Minahasan percussion instrument from North Sulawesi, Indonesia, consisting of wooden blades arranged in a row and mounted on a wooden tub. [1] ...
The following is a list of "prop" guitars that Presley used on screen during musical numbers in his 31 theatrical films. These guitars were purchased by the studios, and in some cases, were identical to Presley's own performance guitars.
A resonator guitar or resophonic guitar (often generically called a "Dobro" [1]) is an acoustic guitar that produces sound by conducting string vibrations through the bridge to one or more spun metal cones (), instead of to the guitar's sounding board (top).
The modern word guitar and its antecedents have been applied to a wide variety of chordophones since classical times, sometimes causing confusion. The English word guitar, the German Gitarre, and the French guitare were all adopted from the Spanish guitarra, which comes from the Andalusian Arabic قيثارة (qīthārah) [6] and the Latin cithara, which in turn came from the Ancient Greek ...
The bouzouki (/ b uː ˈ z uː k i, b ʊ ˈ-/, [1] [2] also US: / b ə ˈ-/; [3] Greek: μπουζούκι; alt. pl. bouzoukia, Turkish: bozuk, from Greek μπουζούκια, from Turkish Turkish: bozuk düzen bağlama, bozuk saz, buzuk) is a musical instrument popular in the West Asia (Syria, Iraq), Europe and Balkans (Greece, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey).