String instruments or stringed instruments are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings. In most strings instruments, the vibrations are transmitted to the body of the instrument, which also vibrates, along with the air inside it. In the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification, used in organology, they are...
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Musical instrument that produces a sound when a stretched string is made to vibrate. Today the strings are made of gut, metal, and nylon or Pearlon (a plastic). Types of string instruments include: bowed, the violin family and viol family; plucked, the guitar, ukulele, lute, sitar, harp, banjo, and lyre; plucked mechanically, the harpsi...
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