Instrument |
Tradition |
Hornbostel–Sachs classification |
Description
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bandurria
|
Spain |
321.322 |
Flatback bandurria is box lute. Roundback bandurria is bowl lute.
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bouzouki, Irish
|
Ireland |
321.322 |
An Irish variant of the Greek bouzouki, with a flat rather than bowl-shaped back
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cuatro[1]
|
Colombia and Venezuela |
321.322 |
Fretted stringed instrument with a hollow body and with four strings
|
cuatro[2]
|
Puerto Rico |
321.322 |
Fretted stringed instrument with a hollow body, derived from the Spanish tiple and other stringed instruments, made from carved wood with strings (ten, in five courses of two)
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dotara[3]
|
Bangladesh |
321.322 |
Small stringed instrument, with plucked metal strings, elongated belly as soundboard and narrow neck ending in a pegbox, decorated with carvings of animals and covered with skin
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drejelire[4]
|
Sweden |
321.322-72 |
Hurdy-gurdy that uses a rosined wheel to create sound
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dutar[5]
|
Turkmenistan |
321.322 |
Plucked string instrument with two strings and a long neck, strummed or plucked
|
fiddle violin |
|
321.322-71 |
|
guitar
|
|
321.322[6] |
Fretted stringed instrument, long-necked with a flat soundboard and back, and incurved sides
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guitar, Portuguese[7]
|
Portugal |
321.322 |
Fretted 12-stringed (in 6 courses) instrument with a hollow body
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Hardingfele[8][9] Hardanger fiddle |
Norway |
321.322-71 |
Ornately decorated fiddle with four main strings and four resonating strings beneath them, which are not touched by the bow
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mandola
|
European |
321.322 |
Originally a bowlback, but modern flatbacks exist too
|
mandole mandole, mondol |
Music of Algeria, Music of Morocco, Chaabi music, Music of Kabyle people, Andalusian classical music, Andalusi nubah, Nuubaat |
321.322 |
Fretted stringed instrument, short-necked, 4 courses/8 strings or 5 courses/10 strings or 6 courses/12 strings. Flat soundboard and flatback.
|
mandolin[10] bandolim |
Europe, has spread worldwide |
321.322 |
Fretted stringed instrument, short-necked, the types belonging to this category have a flat, carved, or canted soundboard and flat or carved back
|
merlin M4 |
Canada |
321.322 |
Fretted guitar-shaped musical instrument with four strings, tuned diatonically
|
nyckelharpa[11]
|
Sweden |
321.322-71 |
Bowed keyed fiddle
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suroz[12]
|
Balochs |
321.322 |
Bowed string instrument with a long neck, similar to a fiddle or sarangi and played vertically
|
tiple[13] Tiple Colombiano |
Colombia |
321.322 |
Guitar-like instrument with a neck and four courses of three strings each
|
tres[14]
|
Cuba |
321.322 |
Guitar-like instrument with a neck and three courses of two strings each
|
ukulele[15] uke |
Hawaii |
321.322 |
String instrument derived from the Portuguese braguinha, from the Hawaiian uku lele, jumping flea, referring to the swift fingerwork the instrument requires chords on a ukuleleⓘ
|
vihuela[16] viola da mano (Italian/Portuguese) |
Spain, Portugal, Italy |
321.322 |
Most commonly twelve-stringed, arranged in six courses
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viol[6]
|
|
321.322-71 |
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violin[6]
|
|
321.322-71 |
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waldzither[6]
|
Germany |
321.322 |
mandola-like lute with nine steel strings
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yueqin moon guitar, moon lute, gekkin, laqin |
China |
321.322 |
Two varieties: a round moon-shaped lute with four strings and a short neck, played with a plectrum, common in Northern China, and a variety with a longer neck found in Taiwan
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