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...

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...

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...

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...

[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...

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

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...

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...

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...

is also a plucked string instrument, as its strings are struck with a plectrum when the keys are depressed. Bowed string instruments, such as the violin...

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

a Chinese bowed string instrument in the huqin family, used primarily in Beijing opera. It is the smallest and highest pitched instrument in the huqin...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

On a bowed string instrument, a bow stroke is the movement of the bow back and forth perpendicularly across the string, from the frog to the tip and from...

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...

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

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...

The nuts of some common instruments A nut, on a stringed musical instrument, is a small piece of hard material that supports the strings at the end closest...

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"...

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...

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...

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...