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...
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wheel whose rosined edge touches the strings. Bowed instruments include the string section instruments of the orchestra in Western classical music (violin...
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String instruments are capable of producing a variety of extended technique sounds. These alternative playing techniques have been used extensively since...
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Rebab (category Bowed string instruments)
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...
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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...
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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...
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Bow (music) (redirect from Bow (musical instrument))
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...
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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...
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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...
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Pizzicato (category String performance techniques)
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...
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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...
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divides instruments into the following groups: String instruments (often subdivided between plucked and bowed instruments); Wind instruments (often subdivided...
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Kamancheh (category Bowed instruments)
kamança, Armenian: քամանչա, Kurdish: کەمانچە ,kemançe) is an Iranian bowed string instrument used in Persian, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Kurdish, Georgian, Turkmen...
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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...
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Erhu (category Chinese musical instruments)
(Chinese: 二胡; pinyin: èrhú; [aɻ˥˩xu˧˥]) is a Chinese two-stringed bowed musical instrument, more specifically a spike fiddle, that is sometimes known...
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plucked string instruments (harpsichord, tangent piano, lautenwerck); bowed string instruments (hurdy-gurdy, bowed clavier); struck string instruments (clavichord...
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Double bass (redirect from String bass)
ledger lines below the staff. The double bass is the only modern bowed string instrument that is tuned in fourths (like a bass guitar, viol, or the lowest-sounding...
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Crwth (redirect from Crowd (musical instrument))
[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...
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Baryton (category String instruments with sympathetic strings)
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...
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Jouhikko (category Bowed lyres)
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...
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Bow stroke (category String performance techniques)
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...
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Musical technique (redirect from String instrument technique)
Different instruments require varying techniques. For example, string instruments require fingering technique, while bowed string instruments require bow...
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Gadulka (category Bowed instruments)
The gadulka (Bulgarian: гъдулка) is a traditional Bulgarian bowed string instrument. Alternate spellings are "gǎdulka", "gudulka" and "g'dulka". Its name...
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The American String Teachers Association (ASTA) is a professional organization for bowed string music teachers based in the United States. It is the largest...
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Inharmonicity (section List of instruments)
resonance points of the instrument. For this reason, a single tone played by a bowed string instrument, brass instrument, or reed instrument does not necessarily...
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Lira (disambiguation) (redirect from Lira (instrument))
medieval bowed string instrument Calabrian lira, a bowed string instrument Cretan lyra, a Greek pear-shaped, three-stringed bowed instrument Lyre, a string instrument...
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Nyckelharpa (category String instruments with sympathetic strings)
integrated onto a bowed string instrument, producing the first keyed fiddle or proto-nyckelharpa instrument. It is unclear where the instrument first appeared...
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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"...
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Rebec (category Bowed string instruments)
and other spellings, pronounced /ˈriːbɛk/ or /ˈrɛbɛk/) is a bowed stringed instrument of the Medieval era and the early Renaissance. In its most common...
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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...
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