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Ascaron

Ascaron

Ascaron

This banjo has a rim with straining wires stretched across the head, held together by three adjustable screw pins. The end of the instrument has tuning pegs which are located at the end of the neck shaped after an oblique shape. The banjo shown is an instrument of the guitar family that has a long neck and circular body.

Rendered View of a Banjo

This banjo has a rim with straining wires stretched across the head, held together by three adjustable…

The viol is a family or musical instruments and is related to and descending from the vihuela and rebec.

Bass Viol

The viol is a family or musical instruments and is related to and descending from the vihuela and rebec.

A musical instrument having a flat-backed rounded body that narrows in the middle, a long fretted neck, and usually six strings, played by strumming or plucking.

Musical Guitar

A musical instrument having a flat-backed rounded body that narrows in the middle, a long fretted neck,…

A musical stringed instrument, much esteemed by the ancients. In Egypt the figure of the harp is found delineated from the earliest ages in many different forms, some of them very simple, and others with great taste and ornament; some played on while standing, others while kneeling. The Celtic bards held the harp in the greatest honor.

Harp

A musical stringed instrument, much esteemed by the ancients. In Egypt the figure of the harp is found…

An ancient harp.

Harp

An ancient harp.

The main instrument in ancient Chinese culture. It is a stringed instrument entirely unlike any other of which we have accounts, saving the Japanese ko-ko, which was most likely derived from it. The ke is strung with fifty strings of silk.

Ke

The main instrument in ancient Chinese culture. It is a stringed instrument entirely unlike any other…

Kinnor is the Hebrew name for an ancient stringed instrument, the first mentioned in the Bible where it is now always translated harp. The kinnor had from ten to twenty string fastened to a metal rod lying along the face of the sounding board.

Kinnor

Kinnor is the Hebrew name for an ancient stringed instrument, the first mentioned in the Bible where…

Kinnor is the Hebrew name for an ancient stringed instrument, the first mentioned in the Bible where it is now always translated harp. The kinnor had from ten to twenty string fastened to a metal rod lying along the face of the sounding board.

Kinnor

Kinnor is the Hebrew name for an ancient stringed instrument, the first mentioned in the Bible where…

Kinura

Kinura

Kinura

Kinura

Kinura

Kinura

Kinura

Kinura

Kinura

Kinura, side view

Kinura

Kinura, side view

Kinura, front view

Kinura

Kinura, front view

Kinura

Kinura

Kinura

The koto is a traditional stringed musical instrument from Japan resembling a zither. Koto have 13 strings that are strung tautly across 13 movable bridges along the length of the instrument.

Koto

The koto is a traditional stringed musical instrument from Japan resembling a zither. Koto have 13 strings…

Timotheus's harp with nine strings

Lyre

Timotheus's harp with nine strings

This illustration shows an ancient lyre. It was fixed with 6 strings all tuned differently.

Lyre

This illustration shows an ancient lyre. It was fixed with 6 strings all tuned differently.

"Two forms of the old Greek lyre." -Foster, 1921

Lyre

"Two forms of the old Greek lyre." -Foster, 1921

A lyre, a stringed instrument commonly used in Greek Classical antiquity.

Lyre

A lyre, a stringed instrument commonly used in Greek Classical antiquity.

Egyptian lyre

Egyptian lyre

Egyptian lyre

The rebec is a bowed stringed instrument. It usually has three strings and is played under chin like a violin.

Rebec

The rebec is a bowed stringed instrument. It usually has three strings and is played under chin like…

A bowed string musical instrument. In its most common form, it has three strings and is played on the arm or under the chin, like a violin.

Rebec

A bowed string musical instrument. In its most common form, it has three strings and is played on the…

Triangular form of the harp

Sambuca

Triangular form of the harp

The shamisen or samisen is a Japanese stringed instrument played with a plectrum (a) called a bachi.

Shamisen

The shamisen or samisen is a Japanese stringed instrument played with a plectrum (a) called a bachi.

A stringed instrument played with a bow, having four strings tuned at intervals of a fifth, an unfretted fingerboard, and a shallower body than the viol and capable of great flexibility in range, tone, and dynamics.

Violin

A stringed instrument played with a bow, having four strings tuned at intervals of a fifth, an unfretted…