Xitende

Washtub bass

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folk instrument made from an overturned washtub (the resonator), broom handle (the neck), and a single string, the tension on…

Jejy lava

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a Malagasy one string musical bow with a smaller gourd resonator

Jejy voatavo

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Malagasy string instrument with two adjacent faces, each with courses of strings, one with frets and one without, mounted on…

Koryaga

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one stringed instrument with a string fixed on a curved branch of a tree. The sound is made by a violin bow or plucked, and t…

String quartet

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a quartet formed of one first violinist, one second violinist, one violist and one cellist

Arco

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Italian

play a stringed instrument with a bow as opposed to plucked or pizzicato; the bow of a stringed instrument

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…

Syllabic

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a musical setting is syllabic when one and only one note is related to one syllable in the text