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The strings are the largest family of instruments in the orchestra and they come in four sizes: the violin, which is the smallest, viola, cello, and the biggest, the double bass, sometimes called the contrabass.
What are string instruments? Meet the members of the string family. As their name suggests, stringed instruments use vibrated strings to produce sound – but how are these instruments played and what are the different types?
Long String Instrument, (by Ellen Fullman, strings are rubbed in, and vibrate in the longitudinal mode) Magnetic resonance piano, (strings activated by electromagnetic fields) Stringed instruments with keyboards Struck. Clavichord. Clavinet; Piano. Fortepiano; Pedal Piano; Harmonichord; Tangent piano; Orphica; Plucked. Akkordolia; Benju; Bulbul ...
Stringed instrument - Plucked, Bowed, Strummed: Probably the most widely distributed type of stringed instrument in the world is the lute (the word is used here to designate the family and not solely the lute of Renaissance Europe). The characteristic structure consists of an enclosed sound chamber, or resonator, with strings passing over all ...
Stringed instruments have featured in a classical orchestra for centuries, especially the violin, viola, cello and double bass. Read all of the facts and watch the BBC Philharmonic play the ...
String instruments are one of the most recognisable musical families, yet they have some surprising members. They're more than what meets the eye (and ear).
A string instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound with vibrating strings amplified by one or more of three main methods: Vibration of a sounding board via a bridge; Resonance of air in a sound box, often through a sound hole; Electric pickup for an instrument amplifier driving a loudspeaker
