Ruan

Samisen

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a Japanese 3 stringed instrument played with a plectrum

Gottuvadhyam

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instrument played in Southern India with six playing strings which pass over the top of the instrument, three drone strings a…

Mandolin

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Italian

a lute shaped instrument with four to six pairs of strings, a fretted fingerboard, played with a plectrum

Bandora

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a plucked string instrument of the lute family, popular both as a solo and as an accompanying instrument to songs of the sixt…

Er hu

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Chinese

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

Liu qin

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treble version of the Chinese lute, had originally 2 or 3 strings and 7 frets, but today may have up to 4 steel strings, and…

Mandola

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a large mandolin, bearing six to eight courses of strings, in use during the Renaissance; a large mandolin a fifth below a st…

Mandoline

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Italian

a lute shaped instrument with four to six pairs of strings, a fretted fingerboard, played with a plectrum