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  Arpa Doppia

  An Arpa Doppia is a Double Harp common throughout Europe between the 16th and 19th Centuries. It was the lack of a full chromatic compass that the theorist Juan Bermudo identified as the main 'defect' of the harp in the mid-16th century. His 'remedies' included tunings with 8 or 9 notes to the...
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  Lyre

  The lyre (from Greek λύρα - lyra) is a stringed musical instrument well known for its use in classical antiquity and later. The recitations of the Ancient Greeks were accompanied by lyre playing. The lyre of Classical Antiquity was ordinarily played by being strummed with a plectrum, like a guitar...
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  Bandurria

  The bandurria is a plectrum plucked chordophone from Spain, similar to the cittern and the mandolin, primarily used in Spanish folk music. The original bandurrias of the Medieval period had three strings. During the Renaissance they gained a fourth string. During the Baroque period the bandurria...
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  Viola caipira

  The viola caipira (Portuguese for hillbilly guitar) is a ten-string, five-course guitar. Unlike most steel-string guitars, its strings are plucked with the fingers of the right hand similarly to the technique used for classical and flamenco guitars, rather than by the use of a plectrum. It is a...
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  Vichitra veena

  The vichitra veena (Hindi: विचित्र वीणा) is a plucked string instrument used in Hindustani music. It is similar to the Carnatic gottuvadhyam (chitra vina). It has no frets and is played with a slide. The Vichitra Veena is the modern form of ancient Ektantri Veena. It is made of a broad, fretless,...
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  Pedal harp

  The pedal harp (also known as the concert harp) is a large and technically modern harp, designed primarily for classical music and played either solo, as part of chamber ensembles, as soloist with or as a section or member in an orchestra. The pedal harp is a descendant of ancient harps. A pedal...
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  Paraguayan harp

  The Paraguayan harp is the national instrument of Paraguay, and similar instruments are used elsewhere in South America, particularly Venezuela. It is a diatonic harp with 32, 36, 38 or 40 strings, made from tropical wood, with an exaggerated neck-arch, played with the fingernail. It accompanies...
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  Electric harp

  Like electric guitars, electric harps are based on their acoustic originals, and there are both solid body and electro-acoustic models available. A solid body electric harp has no hollow soundbox, and thus makes very little noise when not amplified. Alan Stivell writes in his book Telenn, la harpe...

• Triple Harp

  The Welsh triple harp (telyn deires) is a type of harp using three rows of strings instead of the common single row. The Welsh triple harp today is found mainly among players of traditional Welsh folk music. The triple harp first originated in Italy and appeared in the British Isles early in the...

• String instrument

  A string instrument (or stringed instrument) is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. In the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification, used in organology, they are called chordophones. The most common string instruments in the string family are...