Bowed string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by a bow rubbing the strings. The bow rubbing the string causes vibration...

wheel whose rosined edge touches the strings. Bowed instruments include the string section instruments of the orchestra in Western classical music (violin...

String instruments are capable of producing a variety of extended technique sounds. These alternative playing techniques have been used extensively since...

The taus, also known as the mayuri veena, is a bowed string instrument from North India. It is a form of veena used in North India with a peacock-shaped...

the strings of a string instrument. The exact technique varies somewhat depending on the type of instrument: On bowed string instruments it is a method...

century, and is the parent of many bowed and stringed instruments. There are chiefly three main types: A long-necked bowed variety that often has a spike...

Baroque concerto was mainly for a string instrument (violin, viola, cello, seldom viola d'amore or harp) or a wind instrument (flute, recorder, oboe, bassoon...

plucked string instruments (harpsichord, tangent piano, lautenwerck); bowed string instruments (hurdy-gurdy, bowed clavier); struck string instruments (clavichord...

The dahu (Chinese: 大胡; pinyin: dàhú) is a large bowed string instrument from China. It has a large soundbox covered on one end with python skin. Like...

kamança, Armenian: քամանչա, Kurdish: کەمانچە ,kemançe) is an Iranian bowed string instrument used in Persian, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Kurdish, Georgian, Turkmen...

(Chinese: 二胡; pinyin: èrhú; [aɻ˥˩xu˧˥]) is a Chinese two-stringed bowed musical instrument, more specifically a spike fiddle, that is sometimes known...

These instruments are not typically referred to as psalteries, but by the various trade names they were sold under, such as Ukelin. Today, the bowed psaltery...

of a musical instrument to cause vibration, which the instrument emits as sound. The vast majority of bows are used with string instruments, such as the...

[kruːθ]), also called a crowd or rote or crotta, is a bowed lyre, a type of stringed instrument, associated particularly with Welsh music, now archaic...

The tro (Khmer: ទ្រ) is Cambodia's traditional spike fiddle, a bowed string instrument that is held and played vertically. Spike fiddles have a handle...

divides instruments into the following groups: String instruments (often subdivided between plucked and bowed instruments); Wind instruments (often subdivided...

two- or three-stringed bowed lyre, from Finland and Karelia. Its strings are traditionally of horsehair. The playing of this instrument died out in the...

The baryton is a bowed string instrument similar to the viol, but distinguished by an extra set of sympathetic but also pluckable strings. It was in regular...

medieval bowed string instrument Calabrian lira, a bowed string instrument Cretan lyra, a Greek pear-shaped, three-stringed bowed instrument Lyre, a string instrument...

The gadulka (Bulgarian: гъдулка) is a traditional Bulgarian bowed string instrument. Alternate spellings are "gǎdulka", "gudulka" and "g'dulka". Its name...

France Viella, Gers, France Viella, the Italian name for the bowed string instrument Vielle Viella, an Italian academic publisher Vielha e Mijaran,...

The xiqin (Chinese: 奚琴; pinyin: Xī qín) was a bowed 2-string string musical instrument. The instrument was called xiqin in China, referencing the Xi (the...

integrated onto a bowed string instrument, producing the first keyed fiddle or proto-nyckelharpa instrument. It is unclear where the instrument first appeared...

effect of bowed string instruments, obtained by rapidly moving the bow back and forth. However, the technique may be performed on any instrument on which...

yehu (Chinese: 椰胡; pinyin: yēhú) is a bowed string instrument in the huqin family of Chinese musical instruments. Ye means coconut and hu is short for...

family) is a Chinese bowed string instrument with four strings. It is a member of the huqin family of instruments. The instrument's name comes from the...

pedals are to be used, whether a string instrument should be bowed or plucked, or whether the bow of a string instrument should move up or down). A clef...

The octobass is an extremely large and rare bowed string instrument first built around 1850 in Paris by the French luthier Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (1798–1875)...

Different instruments require varying techniques. For example, string instruments require fingering technique, while bowed string instruments require bow...

The pochette is a small stringed instrument of the bowed variety. It is a small violin-like instrument designed to fit in a pocket, hence the name "pochette"...