Flashcards: Chordophones

The arpeggione is a six-stringed musical instrument, fretted and tuned like a guitar, but bowed like a cello, and thus similar to the bass viola da gamba.

The dutar (Persian: دوتار‎‎, Tajik: дутор, Uyghur: دۇتتار, Дуттар‎, ULY: Duttar, Uzbek: dutor, Chinese: 都塔尔) (also dotar or doutar) is a traditional long-necked two-stringed lute found in Iran and Central Asia.

A kantele (Finnish: [ˈkɑntele]) or harppu (in Sami) is a traditional plucked string instrument of the dulcimer and zither family native to Finland and Karelia.

The sitar (English pronunciation: /ˈsɪtɑːr/ or /sɪˈtɑːr/; Hindi: सितार, sitāra pronounced [sɪˈtaːr]) is a plucked stringed instrument used mainly in Hindustani music and Indian classical music.

The terms Tanbur, Tanbūr, Tanbura, Tambur, Tambura or Tanboor can refer to various long-necked, string instrument originating in Mesopotamia, Southern or Central Asia.

The banhu (板胡, pinyin: bǎnhú) is a Chinese traditional bowed string instrument in the huqin family of instruments.

The biwa (琵琶) is a Japanese short-necked fretted lute, often used in narrative storytelling.

The clavichord is a European stringed keyboard instrument known from the late Medieval, through the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras.

The lyre (Greek: λύρα, lýra) is a string instrument known for its use in Greek classical antiquity and later periods.

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument, in which the strings are struck by hammers.

The pipa (Chinese: 琵琶; pinyin: pípa, [pʰǐpʰǎ]) is a four-stringed Chinese musical instrument, belonging to the plucked category of instruments.

The dombra (Kazakh: домбыра dombyra; Uzbek: dambura; Bashkir and Tatar: dumbyra, tumpyra, tumra; Turkish: dombıra) is a long-necked Turkic lute and a musical string instrument.

Setar (Persian: سه‌تار‎‎, from seh, meaning "three" and tār, meaning "string") is a Persian musical instrument.

Zither (pronounced /ˈzɪ.ðər/ or /ˈzɪ.θər/, German: [ˈtsɪtɐ]) is a class of stringed instruments.

The gusle (Serbian Cyrillic: гусле), Albanian: lahuta, Bulgarian: гусла) is a single-stringed musical instrument (and musical style) traditionally used in the Dinarides region of the Southeastern Europe.

The oud (/uːd/) is a pear-shaped stringed instrument with 11 or 13 strings grouped in 5 or 6 courses, commonly used in Persian, Arabic, Greek, Turkish, Jewish, Byzantine, Azerbaijani, Armenian, North African (Chaabi, Classical, and Spanish Andalusian), Somali and Middle Eastern music.

The shamisen or samisen (三味線, literally "three strings"), also called sangen (三絃, literally "three strings"), is a three-stringed, Japanese musical instrument derived from the Chinese instrument sanxian.

The komuz or qomuz (Kyrgyz: комуз IPA: [qoˈmuz]), Azeri Gopuz, Turkish Kopuz, is an ancient fretless string instrument used in Central Asian music, related to certain other Turkic string instruments and the lute.

The berimbau (/bərɪmˈbaʊ/; Brazilian Portuguese: /beɾĩˈbaw/) is a single-string percussion instrument, a musical bow, from Brazil.

A spinet is a smaller type of harpsichord or other keyboard instrument, such as a piano or organ.

The kora is a 21-string lute-bridge-harp used extensively in West Africa.

The barbat (Persian: بربط‎‎) or barbud was a lute of possibly Central Asian origin.

The cittern or cithren (Fr. cistre, It. cetra, Ger. zitter, zither, Sp. cistro, cedra, cítola) is a stringed instrument dating from the Renaissance.

The vihuela (Spanish pronunciation: [biˈwela]) is a guitar-shaped string instrument from 15th and 16th century Spain, Portugal and Italy, usually with five or six doubled strings.

The Appalachian dulcimer (many variant names; see below) is a fretted string instrument of the zither family, typically with three or four strings.

The baryton is a bowed string instrument similar to the viol, but distinguished by an extra set of plucked strings.

The takumbo is a parallel-stringed tube zither made from bamboo, and is found in the Philippines.