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In musical instrument classification, string instruments or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner.
- String Instrument Repertoire
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- List of String Instruments
Struck or tapped. Berimbau (Brazil); Cimbalom (Hungary,...
- String Instrument Repertoire
Mar 15, 2024 · strum (plural strums) The sound made by playing various strings of a stringed instrument simultaneously. hear the strum of a guitar. The act of strumming. give the banjo a little strum.
1. to play on (a stringed musical instrument) by running the fingers lightly across the strings. 2. to produce by such playing: to strum a tune. v.i. 3. to strum a stringed instrument. n. 4. an act, instance, or sound of strumming. [1765–75; perhaps b. string and thrum 1] strum′mer, n.
The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, in modern forms usually made of plastic, originally of animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashioned by African Americans and had African antecedents.
to play a guitar or similar instrument by moving the fingers lightly across all of the strings together. (Definition of strum from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of strum. strum. The vocal is close miked with connotations of intimacy and is accompanied solely by a lightly strummed acoustic guitar.
The Anglo-Saxon lyre, also known as the Germanic lyre, a Rotta, or the Viking lyre, is a large plucked and strummed lyre that was played in Anglo-Saxon England, and more widely, in Germanic regions of northwestern Europe. The oldest lyre found in England dates before 450 AD and the most recent dates to the 10th century.
May 18, 2018 · lyre, generic term for stringed musical instruments [1] having a sound box from which project curved arms joined by a crossbar. The strings are stretched between the crossbar and the sound box and are plucked with the fingers or with a plectrum.
