String Instrument

String Instrument

String instruments are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings. In the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification, used in organology, they are called chordophones. Some common instruments in the string family are guitar, sitar, rabab, electric bass, violin, viola, cello, double bass, banjo, mandolin, ukulele, bouzouki, and harp.

Read more about String Instrument:  History, Changing The Pitch of A Vibrating String, String Length or Scale Length, Contact Points Along The String, Production of Multiple Notes, Sympathetic Strings

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