String instruments String instruments The acoustic bass guitar is an acoustic string instrument based on the configuration of the electric bass pioneered by Leo Fender's electric Fender Precision Bass. ...more on Wikipedia about "Acoustic bass guitar"
The ajaeng is a Korean string instrument. It is a long zither with seven strings, played by means of a long, thin stick made of forsythia wood, which is scraped against the strings in the manner of a bow. It is generally played while seated on the floor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ajaeng"
The Appalachian dulcimer is a fretted string instrument with three or four strings, although contemporary versions of the instrument can have as many as twelve strings and six courses. The body extends the length of the fingerboard and traditionally has an hourglass, teardrop, triangular, or elliptical shape (also called the galax). A courting dulcimer has two fretboards allowing two players to closely sit across from each other to perform duets, hence the name. ...more on Wikipedia about "Appalachian dulcimer"
The archlute, a European plucked string instrument was developed soon after 1600 as a compromise between the very large theorbo, the size and re-entrant tuning of which made for difficuties in the performance of solo music, and the Renaissance tenor lute, which lacked the double bass notes of the theorbo. Essentially a tenor lute with the theorbo's neck extension appended, the archlute lacked the power in the tenor and the bass that the theorbo's large body and string length provided. The archlute then, was used as a solo instrument for the first three-quarters of the 17th century, but is rarely mentioned as a continuo instrument in this period, the theorbo being the lute class instrument with this role. ...more on Wikipedia about "Archlute"
The arpeggione is a six-stringed musical instrument, fretted and tuned like a guitar, but bowed like a cello, and thus similar to the bass viola da gamba. It enjoyed a brief vogue after its invention around 1823, by the Viennese guitar maker Johann Georg Staufer (1778-1853). The only notable piece extant for the instrument is a sonata with piano accompaniment by Franz Schubert, but this is now more commonly played on a cello, viola, or other medium-ranged instrument. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arpeggione"
To produce an artificial harmonic, a string player (such as a guitarist) holds down a note on the neck with their left hand, thereby shortening the vibrational length of the string, and uses their right hand to lightly touch a point on the string that is an integer divisor of its vibrational length, and also pluck the side of the string that is closer to the bridge. This technique is used to produce harmonic tones that are otherwise inaccessible on the instrument. To guitar players, one variety of this technique is known as a pinch harmonic. ...more on Wikipedia about "Artificial harmonic"
The Autoharp is a zither-like musical string instrument having a series of chord bars attached to dampers which, when depressed, mute all the strings other than those that form the desired chord. It has been a registered trademark since 1927, and is currently owned by U.S. Music Corporation, whose Oscar Schmidt division manufactures Autoharps. The generic term for the instrument is chorded zither. ...more on Wikipedia about "Autoharp"
(Baglama) The bağlama is a stringed musical instrument shared by various cultures in the Eastern Mediterranean. ...more on Wikipedia about "Baglama"
The balalaika (балала́йка) is a stringed instrument of Russian origin, with a characteristic triangular body and 3 strings (or sometimes 6, in pairs). ...more on Wikipedia about "Balalaika"
The Bandola is a small pear-shape chordophone found in Venezuela and Colombia. It is related to the Bandurria. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bandola"
A bandura also known as kobza is a Ukrainian plucked-string instrument from the lute family. In reality the name refers to 3 different instruments. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bandura"
The bandurria is a plectrum plucked chordophone from Spain, similar to the cittern, primarily used in Spanish folk music. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bandurria"
The banjo is a stringed instrument of African-American origin, early or original examples sometimes being called the "gourd banjo". Its name is commonly thought to be derived from the Kimbundu term mbanza. Some etymologists derive it from a dialectal pronunciation of "bandore", though recent research suggests that it may come from a Senegambian term for the bamboo stick used for the instrument's neck. ...more on Wikipedia about "Banjo"
* A "banjolin" is a type of mandolin popularized in the 1920's. It is tuned and played the same as a mandolin. ...more on Wikipedia about "Banjolin"
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The Banjoline is a type of electric guitar developed by Eddie Peabody first with Fender Musical Instruments Co. and then with Gretsch Co. ...more on Wikipedia about "Banjoline"
The barbiton, or barbitos (Gr. [Greek: barbiton] or [Greek: barbitos]; Lat. barbitus; Pers. barbat, barbud), is an ancient stringed instrument known to us from the Greek and Roman classics, but derived from Persia. Theocritus (xvi. 45), the Sicilian poet, calls it an instrument of many strings, i.e. more than seven, which was by the Hellenes accounted the perfect number, as in the cithara of the best period. Anacreon (a native of Teos in Asia Minor) sings that his barbitos only gives out erotic tones. Pollux ( Onomasticon iv. chap. 8, § 59) calls the instrument barbiton or barymite (from [Greek: barous], heavy and [Greek: mitos], a string), an instrument producing deep sounds; the strings were twice as long as those of the pectis and sounded an octave lower. Pindar (in Athen. xiv. p. 635), in the same line wherein he attributes the introduction of the instrument into Greece to Terpander, tells us one could magadize, i.e. play in two parts at an interval of an octave on the two instruments. The word barbiton was frequently used for the lyre itself. Although in use in Asia Minor, Italy, Sicily, and Greece, it is evident that the barbiton never won for itself a place in the affections of the Greeks of Hellas; it was regarded as a barbarian instrument affected by those only whose tastes in matters of art were unorthodox. It had fallen into disuse in the days of Aristotle, but reappeared under the Romans. ...more on Wikipedia about "Barbiton"
The baryton is an obsolete bowed stringed instrument, in regular use up until the end of the 18th century. Its size is comparable to that of a violoncello; it has seven or sometimes six bowed strings of gut, plus from nine to twenty-four sympathetic wire strings (most often twelve). It is rarely played today. ...more on Wikipedia about "Baryton"
According to Ethiopian tradition, the Begena was used by David to soothe King Saul's nerves and heal him of insomnia and that the instrument came to Ethiopia from Israel at the time of Menelik I. Its actual origin remains in doubt, even though Ethiopian manuscripts depict the instrument at the beginning of the fifteenth century, A.D. (Kimberlin 1978: 13) ...more on Wikipedia about "Begena"
A biwa (琵琶) is a Japanese short-necked fretted lute, and a close variant of the Chinese pipa. The biwa is the chosen instrument of Benten, the White Snake Goddess of Japan's Shinto religion. ...more on Wikipedia about "Biwa"
The Bordonua (Bordonúa) is a large, deep body (sound-boxes are usually 6 in or 15.3 cm deep) bass guitar which is native to Puerto Rico. They are made using several different shapes and sizes. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bordonua"
The bouzouki ( gr. το μπουζούκι; pl. τα μπουζούκια) (plural sometimes transliterated as bouzoukia) is the mainstay of modern Greek music, and is also found in Irish music. It is a stringed instrument with a pear-shaped body and a very long neck. The bouzouki is a member of the 'long neck lute' family and is similar to an oversized mandolin. The front of the body is flat and is usually heavily inlaid with mother-of-pearl. The instrument is played with a plectrum and has a sharp metallic sound. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bouzouki"
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Bowed psaltery simply means a psaltery that is played with a bow. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bowed psaltery"
Bridge pins are used on some musical instruments to locate the string precisely in the horizontal plane and to affect the sustain of the strings. They are usually made of steel in modern pianos, of brass in harpsichords. The sustain control function of a bridge pin is not needed in modern pianos since the tuning of multiple strings with the same pitch is used to control sustain, however it is crucial to the sustain of harpsichord strings which sound singly. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bridge pin"
The cavaquinho ( pron. IPA / / in European Portuguese and / / in Brazilian Portuguese) is a small string instrument (like the ukulele) of the European guitar family with four wires or gut strings. It is also called machimbo, machim, machete (Portuguese islands' and Brazilian designation), manchete or marchete, braguinha or braguinho and cavaco. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cavaquinho"
The 'cello (often formally referred to as the violoncello) is a stringed instrument and a member of the violin family. A cello player is called a cellist. Cellists are often gregarious by nature, and will insist that more cellos (or celli, as they are familiarly called) are better, up to at least twelve . ...more on Wikipedia about "Cello" http://www.shortopedia.com, the smart choice. shortopedia
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