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List of string instruments

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This is a list of string instruments.

Bowed[edit]

Plucked or strummed[edit]

Struck or tapped[edit]

• Berimbau (Brazil)
• Cimbalom (Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Romania)
• Chapman stick (United States)
  • Chapman Stick
  • Grand Stick
  • Bass Stick
• Chitarra battente, a.k.a. "knocking guitar" (Italy)
• Clavichord (keyboard instrument)
• Clavinet (electric keyboard instrument)
• Đàn tam thập lục (Vietnam)
• Fiddlesticks
• Hammered dulcimer
• Harpejji
• Jhallari
• Khim (Thailand and Cambodia)
• Piano (Keyboard instrument)
• Santur/Santoor (Persia, India, Pakistan, Greece)
• Tsymbaly (Ukraine)
• Utogardon (Hungary)
• Warr guitar
• Yanggeum (Korea)
• Yangqin (China)

Other methods[edit]

• Aeolian harp (air movement)
• Long String Instrument, (byEllen Fullman, strings are rubbed in, and vibrate in the longitudinal mode)
• Magnetic resonance piano, (strings activated by electromagnetic fields)

Stringed instruments with keyboards[edit]

Struck[edit]

• Clavichord
  • Clavinet
• Piano
  • Fortepiano
  • Pedal Piano
  • Harmonichord
  • Tangent piano
  • Orphica

Plucked[edit]

• Akkordolia
• Benju
• Bulbul tarang
• Clavicymbalum
• Harpsichord
  • Archicembalo
  • Lautenwerck
  • Spinet
  • Virginal
• Shahi baaja
• Taishōgoto
• Xenorphica^[1][2]

Bowed[edit]

• Nyckelharpa
• Hurdy-gurdy
• Viola organista
  • Wheelharp

Other/hybrid[edit]

• Magnetic resonance piano

Stringed instruments by country[edit]

References[edit]

See also[edit]

• List of guitars