Chin chin

Tuning peg

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a peg, usually of wood, or a pin, usually of steel, around which a string runs, and which, when turned, increases or decrease…

Tuning pin

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a peg, usually of wood, or a pin, usually of steel, around which a string runs, and which, when turned, increases or decrease…

Barre

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French

a device that clamps to the neck of a plucked string instrument and which change its tuning by shortening the sounding length…

Er hu

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Chinese

a Chinese bowed string instrument similar to a violin but with only two strings

Kithara

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ancient Greek lyre like instrument, a square or rounded resonator box (body) and as many as eleven gut strings supported by a…

Koto

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a 13 string Japanese zither of Chinese origin. about 6 feet long. laid horizontally with waxed silken strings stretched tight…

Open string

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an unstopped string

Pipa

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a Chinese lute like instrument dating back to the Qin Dynasty (221 206 BC) bearing four strings, with a pear shaped body made…