string instrument

Also known as stringed instrument, string musical instrument, stringed instruments, chordophone

musical instrument that generates tones by one or more strings stretched between two points

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A string instrument is a musical tool that makes sounds by vibrating one or more strings that are pulled tight between two fixed points. These instruments, which include guitars, violins, and pianos, have been central to music-making across cultures and throughout history because their strings can produce a wide range of tones and are relatively simple to build and play.

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Commons category: String instruments

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Various string instruments; mostly lute family instruments

In musical instrument classification, string instruments, or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer strums, plucks, strikes or sounds the strings in varying manners.