List string instruments (classical music)

This article counts the string instruments which one meets in classical music, except those which are played using a keyboard.

Groups of instruments

String instruments rubbed

The musician makes vibrate the cords using a archet.
  • String instruments in the symphony orchestra.
* Violin
* Viola
* Violoncello
* Double bass
  • a curiosity of the same family
* Octobasse (the monster of the family)
  • String instruments (for the majority, instruments baroques).
* Baritone
* Small pocket (violin of the Master has to dance)
* Rébec (precursory of the violin, with three cords)
* Quinton (violin or viola with five cords)
* Vielle with wheel (the cords are rubbed by a wheel actuated by a crank)
* Viola ale inglese
* Viola pomposa or Violoncello piccolo (Small violoncello which is played in front of the chest)
* Viola da gamba
* Viola d'amore
* Viole of Orphée (viola da gamba with brass cords)
* Violin baroque
* Violin of love
* Violoncello ale inglese (instrument “of love”, with 12 cords sympathetic nerves)
* Violone (low baroque with six cords)

  • cords rubbed by a wheel

* Hurdy-gurdy with wheel

String instruments “pinches”

The musician grips, or scrapes, the cord using his fingers, or of a Plectre.

String instruments “struck”

The violin maker

The Luthier manufactures and repairs the instruments of the family of the violins and their bows, as well as the string instruments pinches

See too

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