zitherZithers (/ˈzɪðər, ˈzɪθ-/; German: [ˈtsɪtɐ], from the Greek word cithara) are a class of stringed instruments. Historically, the name has been applied to any instrument of the psaltery family, or to an instrument consisting of many strings stretched across a thin, flat body.https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Zither
Yueqin– Moon-shaped lute, also known as sixian, moon lute, Chinese lute, moon guitar, or moon violin.
The zaabia is a vessel-rattle idiophone used by the Dagbamba people of northern Ghana. It is played alongside the spike fiddle gondze. The zaabia is most frequently played by female members of families that traditionally play gondze, but is not exclusively a female instrument.
Flute – A wind musical instrument made out of wood, bone, metal or some other materials in the form of a tube with various round holes that are covered by fingers or keys.
A person who plays the xylophone is known as a xylophonist or simply a xylophone player. The term is also popularly used to refer to similar instruments of the lithophone and metallophone types.
to·nette tō-ˈnet. : a simple fipple flute with a range somewhat larger than an octave that is often used in elementary music education.
The bandoneón – or button accordion – is the soul of tango. It can sound as heavenly as a church organ and as mundane as a police siren. It's often a substitute for strings, percussion and even vocals.
Banjo – A string instrument developed by African American musicians. It has a guitar-type neck and can be found with 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 or more strings. The banjo has become very popular in American old time and bluegrass music.
"7 Years" is a soul-pop song with hip hop influences, written in the key of G minor with a chord progression of Gm-Bb-Eb-F. It runs at 130 bpm. It is accompanied by a midtempo piano line, a percussion backbeat, slideshow projector incorporations, and a synthesized string section.
A zither is technically any stringed instrument that has the feature of the strings not extending beyond the soundhole or resonator of the instrument (unlike, say, a guitar, where the strings stretch out into a neck).
A mandolin harp is a type of fretless chord zither. This musical instrument consists of a sound box with two sets of unstopped strings. It has doubled strings in unison courses producing a more mandolin-like sound than other zithers.
The German inventor Karl August Gütter patented his "Volkszither" in 1882, however, that was the same year that German immigrant Charles F Zimmerman patented Gütter's design as the autoharp in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. whose design led to the modern zithers.
The stub-ended Swanson Tonette is a small (6" cavity), end-blown vessel flute made of plastic, which was once popular in American elementary music education.
Most woodwind instruments rely on tone holes to produce different pitches. Two exceptions are the slide whistle and the overtone flutes. Most brass instruments use valves or a slide instead of tone holes, with the rare keyed bugle and the ophicleide as exceptions.
fip·ple flute ˈfi-pəl- : any of a group of wind instruments (such as a flageolet or recorder) having a straight tubular shape, a whistle mouthpiece, and finger holes.
The Mandinka balafon, also called the bala or the balphone, is a kind of idiophone (an instrument which creates sound by vibrating). In the West, instruments like this are called xylophones.
Glockenspiel. A glockenspiel made by Malletech.
Glockenspiel = Metal Xylophone = Wood.
Some of the most popular musical instruments that start with the letter G are guitar, glass marimba, ganza, goblet drum, gender, and gong.
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