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Bowed string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by a bow rubbing the strings. The bow rubbing the string causes vibration which the instrument emits as sound.
The Arabic rabāb is the earliest known bowed instrument,[1] and the ancestor of all European bowed instruments, including the rebec, lyra and violin.[2]
List of bowed string instruments[edit]
Violin family[edit]
- Pochette
- Violin (violino)
- Viola (altviol, bratsche)
- Cello (violoncello)
- Double bass (contrabasso)
- Variants on the standard members of the violin family include
Viol family (Viola da Gamba family)[edit]
- Treble viol (treble viola da gamba)
- Alto viol (alto viola da gamba)
- Tenor viol (tenor viola da gamba)
- Bass viol (bass viola da gamba)
- Variants on the standard four members of the viol family include:
- Pardessus de viol
- Division viol
- Lyra viol
- Baryton
- Violone
- Viola d'amore
- Lirone
- Vihuela de arco
Lyra and rebec type[edit]
Chinese bowed instruments[edit]
Rosined wheel instruments[edit]
The following instruments are sounded by means of a turning wheel that acts as the bow.
Other bowed instruments[edit]
- Masenqo
- Violoncello da spalla
- Ravanahatha
- Ajaeng
- Yaylı tambur
- Kingri string Instrument
- Shichepshin
- Đàn nhị
- Đàn hồ
- Đàn gáo
- Sohaegeum
- Haegeum
- Kokyū
- sorud
- Chuurqin
- Daxophone
- Arpeggione
- Bowed psaltery
- Bowed dulcimer
- Jouhikko
- Talharpa
- Gue
- Vielle
- Giga
- Fiðla
- Tautirut
- Agiarut
- Crwth
- Neola
- Bowed guitar
- Musical saw
- Morin khuur
- Gusle
- Saw duang
- Saw sam sai
- Saw u
- Salo (instrument)
- Tro Khmer
- Tro sau toch
- Tro sau thom
- Tro u
- huqin
- Sarangi
- Sarangi (Nepali)
- Sarinda
- Esraj
- Nyckelharpa (Swedish keyed fiddle)
- Ghaychak
- Gadulka
- Gudok
- Kobyz
- Sorahi
- Byzaanchy
- Igil
- Imzad
- Umbang
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "rabab (musical instrument) - Encyclopædia Britannica". Britannica.com. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
- ^ Encyclopædia Britannica (2009), lira, Encyclopædia Britannica Online, retrieved 2009-02-20