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Koto
Luthier inspects a violin body at a workbench beside a microscope and shelves of varnish jars. Overlay arrow points to the violin with a text box: “$1 million!”
Soundboard
What goes on inside a grand piano?
Watch and hear a person playing the sarod, a stringed instrument of Hindustani music
Hardanger fiddle Samisen Oud ajaeng
Watch a man playing a Brazilian musical bow called Berimbau
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Young girl wearing a demin jacket playing the trumpet (child, musical instruments, Asian ethnicity)
Sound Check: Musical Vocabulary Quiz
Gong. Closeup of a khong wong gong circle chime. Thai classical musical instrument, part of piphat ensemble. (percussion, music)
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Trumpet musical instrument.
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What It's Like to Restore the World's Most Expensive Violins
Luthier: One who makes stringed instruments.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
What goes on inside a grand piano?
Animation demonstrating a type of action in a grand piano.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Watch and hear a person playing the sarod, a stringed instrument of Hindustani music
The sarod, one of the principal melodic solo instruments of Hindustani music.
Video: Wesleyan Virtual Instrument Museum 2.0 (https://wesomeka.wesleyan.edu/vim2)
Watch a man playing a Brazilian musical bow called Berimbau
The Brazilian musical bow, berimbau.
Video: Wesleyan Virtual Instrument Museum 2.0 (https://wesomeka.wesleyan.edu/vim2)
Watch a woman playing the hammered dulcimer
North American hammered dulcimer.
Video: Wesleyan Virtual Instrument Museum 2.0 (https://wesomeka.wesleyan.edu/vim2)
Playing the rebab, an instrument that elaborates the melody in Javanese gamelan music
The rebab, one of the instruments that elaborate the main melody in Javanese...
Video: Wesleyan Virtual Instrument Museum 2.0 (https://wesomeka.wesleyan.edu/vim2)

Images

Koto
A Japanese musician plucking the strings of a koto with the right hand to generate...
© Feng Yu/Fotolia
Soundboard
A portion of the soundboard of an upright piano.
Ragesoss
Hardanger fiddle
The bridge of a Hardanger fiddle, with the sympathetic strings visible beneath the...
© Wulffenstejn Hardanger Fiddle/hardingfele.com
Samisen
A street musician playing a Japanese samisen.
DO'Neil
Oud
An oud with the characteristic wooden belly and backward-slanting pegbox.
Wesleyan Virtual Instrument Museum 2.0 (https://wesomeka.wesleyan.edu/vim2)
ajaeng
Musician playing an ajaeng, a type of bowed zither, in a traditional Korean...
Korea Britannica Corp.
Bowl lyre
East African bowl lyre; in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
Courtesy of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
Egyptian statuette with angular harp
Egyptian statuette with angular harp, painted wood, Late Period (1085–525 bce);...
Courtesy of the trustees of the British Museum, London; photograph, J.R. Freeman & Co. Ltd.
Irish harp
Irish harp.
© Dolgin Alexander Klimentyevich/Shutterstock.com
Hardanger fiddle
Hardanger fiddle, a Norwegian folk instrument.
© Wulffenstejn Hardanger Fiddle/hardingfele.com
celempung
Side view of a celempung, one of the instruments that elaborate the main...
Wesleyan Virtual Instrument Museum 2.0 (https://wesomeka.wesleyan.edu/vim2)
Sitar
Indian sitari virtuoso Anoushka Shankar playing the sitar, 2017.
Syspeo—Sipa/Shutterstock.com
Stanley Brothers
Bluegrass duo the Stanley Brothers, Ralph (left) playing the banjo and Carter (right)...
Courtesy © Gusto Records, Inc.
Mongolian throat-singer
A Mongolian throat-singer accompanying himself on a traditional horsehead fiddle,...
© Testing/Shutterstock.com
Harpsichord
Harpsichord in the Flemish style.
Ratigan
gusla
A gusla being played by epic singer Dragise Stojanovic, 1973.
Courtesy of John Miles Foley
Kora
Toumani Diabate playing the kora, 2008.
David Redfern—Redferns/Getty Images
Apollo with lyre
Roman marble statue of Apollo with lyre.
© Photos.com/Thinkstock
kŏmungo
Musician playing a kŏmungo, a type of Korean zither with six strings.
The National Centre for Korean Traditional Performing Arts
yangqin
The Chinese trapezoidal box zither, yangqin.
© EasyBalance/stock.adobe.com
cimbalom
Cimbalom and performer.
Courtesy of the Somsak Family. Photographed by Rhead Lown
tambura
Tambura.
Allauddin
Rebec and harp
Women playing a rebec (left foreground) and a harp (right foreground) serenading...
© PHOTOS.com/Getty Images Plus
Violin
AbleStock/Jupiterimages
Violin interior
Interior of a violin, showing corner and end blocks and linings; underside of table...
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Mstislav Rostropovich
Russian musician Mstislav Rostropovich playing the cello, 1965.
Erich Auerbach—Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Antonio Stradivari
Antonio Stradivari in his workshop.
Stefano Bianchetti—Corbis/Getty Images

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