Similar string instruments have been around for almost 1000 years.

It is hard to get good string instruments to replace what we have.

Basically it is a string instrument with a sound box for a head.

It is only for students in grades 3-5 who play string instruments.

He saw a musician teaching a string instrument to one of the students.

He soon became the largest manufacturer of string instruments in the country.

In his left hand he was holding what looked to be some kind of stringed instrument.

And if you're a woman, aren't you tired of being treated like a string instrument?

The "0" position should be used for normal voices and string instruments.

It is a full time school specializing in string instrument training.

It is the second biggest string instrument in an orchestra.

Even among string instruments, the viola is not a star.

It is quite unusual though, to use individual string instruments in contemporary popular music.

These dance halls got their name from the string instrument often found in them.

It was from these peasants that he began to learn to play traditional Chinese string instruments.

He was able to play many stringed instruments with great facility.

It is in India a generic name for a string instrument.

This fact is dramatically illustrated in the design of string instruments.

He's here, selling a good range of traditional stringed instruments.

During these days he became interested in string instruments, especially the violin, which his father bought him.

A composition for four players of stringed instruments may be in any form.

Membership is open to all high school students who play stringed instruments.

With only two stringed instruments, this option was not available.

I am beginning to discover the true nature of string instruments."

To this listener, the sound of string instruments seemed particularly affected.

It is arguably the most complex chordophone of Africa.

The rabel is a small folk chordophone of Spanish origin.

When a chordophone is plucked, the strings vibrate and echo off each other.

It is played in a similar manner to the chordophone used in the music of Madagascar.

Inuit culture is one of the few New World cultures to have a chordophone tradition.

It is a chordophone made up of a large trapezoidal box with steel strings stretched across its top.

It is a bowed chordophone that was traditionally used to be played with the batuque dances.

The xalam, in its standard form, is a simple lute chordophone with one to five strings.

A chordophone called a kalumbu was traditionally played by young men to signal their desire to marry.

The krar, a chordophone, is usually decorated with wood, cloth and beads.

It is a string instrument or chordophone.

The award is named after the kora, an important West African plucked chordophone.

It is a guitar-like chordophone with 5 strings.

A chordophone is any musical instrument that makes sound by way of a vibrating string or strings stretched between two points.

This was thought to be the "missing link" between the upside-down or "knee chordophone" instruments, and the modern violin.

The Cetra was a stringed musical instrument well known for its use in ancient times, belonging to the chordophone family.

The guitar is a string instrument of the chordophone family constructed from wood and strung with either nylon or steel strings.

Laúd is a plectrum-plucked chordophone from Spain.

Basically, it was a chordophone not unlike a clavichord - in other words, the strings were struck, not plucked.

Originally choro was played by a trio of flute, guitar and cavaquinho (a small chordophone with four strings).

Their safeness is testified by the presence of recreational activities, such as the prophetess Miriam playing a chordophone in the foreground.

A musical instrument of the chordophone family, the lyre-guitar was a type of guitar shaped like a lyre.

The tres is a Cuban three-course, six-string chordophone.

The kora, arguably the most complex chordophone in African music, is a 21-stringed bridge-harp from West Africa.

"beating guitar") also known as "chitarra italiana" is a musical instrument, a chordophone of the lute family.