stringed+instrument
121Bağlama — Infobox Instrument name=Bağlama names= classification= *Plucked string instruments range= related= * Bouzouki (Greece) * Buzuq (Lebanon) * Saz (Turkey) * Tanbur * Tar (lute), Dutar, and Setar (from Iran)The bağlama is a stringed musical… …
122Guitar pick — A guitar pick is a type of plectrum designed for use on a guitar. Over time people have made picks of various materials, including plastic, rubber, felt, tortoiseshell, wood, metal, and stone. They most often take the shape of an acute isosceles… …
123Santoor — The santur is a Persian hammered dulcimer similar to the Indian santoor .The santoor is an Persian stringed musical instrument which is trapezoid shaped hammered dulcimer often made of walnut, with seventy strings. The special shaped mallets (… …
124Ancient Tamil music — The ancient Tamil music was the music of the ancient Tamil people, who resided in the lands of the ancient Tamil country. Many poems of the Sangam literature, the classical Tamil literature of the early common era, were set to music. There are… …
125Classical music — Montage of great classical music composers. From left to right: Top row – Antonio Vivaldi, Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven; second row – Gioachino Rossini, Felix Mendelssohn, Frédéric… …
126double bass — double bassist. /bays/ the largest instrument of the violin family, having three or, usually, four strings, rested vertically on the floor when played. Also called bass fiddle, bass viol, contrabass, string bass. [1720 30] * * * Lowest pitched of …
127sitar — sitarist, n. /si tahr /, n. a lute of India with a small, pear shaped body and a long, broad, fretted neck. [1835 45; < Hindi sitar] * * * Long necked stringed instrument of northern India, the dominant instrument in Hindustani music. It is used… …
128Islamic arts — Visual, literary, and performing arts of the populations that adopted Islam from the 7th century. Islamic visual arts are decorative, colourful, and, in religious art, nonrepresentational; the characteristic Islamic decoration is the arabesque.… …
