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In musical instrument classification, string instruments, or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer strums, plucks, strikes or sounds the strings in varying manners.
Classification, Renaissance to modern & Earliest string instruments
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| the musical bow | instance of | Zithers include stick zithers | 0.80 | text |
| tube zithers with a tube as the resonator such as the valiha | instance of | Zithers include stick zithers | 0.80 | text |
| raft zithers in which tube zithers are tied into a single | instance of | Zithers include stick zithers | 0.80 | text |
| the Greek kithara | instance of | Sachs divided this into the box lyre | 0.80 | text |
| the bowl lyre which used a bowl on its side with skin soundboard.The harp which has strings vertical to the soundboard | instance of | Sachs divided this into the box lyre | 0.80 | text |
| the gittern | instance of | emerged in Europe through instruments | 0.80 | text |
| a four-stringed precursor to the guitar | instance of | emerged in Europe through instruments | 0.80 | text |
| and basic lutes | instance of | emerged in Europe through instruments | 0.80 | text |
| the bandora were produced alongside quill-plucked citterns | instance of | while more elaborate bass instruments | 0.80 | text |
| and Spanish body guitars.In the 19th century | instance of | while more elaborate bass instruments | 0.80 | text |
| string instruments were made more widely available through mass production | instance of | while more elaborate bass instruments | 0.80 | text |
| with wood string instruments a key part of orchestras | instance of | while more elaborate bass instruments | 0.80 | text |
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