"artist name was. An example of a contemporary hummel player is Erik Hector, who played the hummel on many of Sågskära's productions and Henrik ""Hummel"" Schön. Hummel (instrument) The hummel (also hommel or humle) is an old Northern European stringed instrument similar to an older type of zither and is related to the Norwegian langeleik. The name is thought to come from the German word ""hummel"", meaning ""bumblebee"", referring to the droning sound created by the accompaniment strings. The hummel is probably from the Middle Ages, when it was found all over Europe in slightly differing variants. The instrument was"
"Zither Zither (; ) is a class of stringed instruments. The word """" is a German rendering of the Greek word ""cithara"", from which the modern word ""guitar"" also derives. Historically, it has been applied to any instrument of the cittern family, or an instrument consisting of many strings stretched across a thin, flat body – similar to a psaltery. This article describes the second variety. Zithers are played by strumming or plucking the strings, either with the fingers (sometimes using an accessory called a plectrum or ""pick""), sounding the strings with a bow, or, with varieties of the instrument"
"The cittern or cithren (Fr. cistre, It. cetra, Ger. zitter, zither, Sp. cistro, cedra, cítola)[1] is a stringed instrument dating from the Renaissance. Modern scholars debate its exact history, but it is generally accepted that it is descended from the Medieval citole (or cytole). It looks much like the modern-day flat-back mandolin and the modern Irish bouzouki. Its flat-back design was simpler and cheaper to construct than the lute. It was also easier to play, smaller, less delicate and more portable. Played by all classes, the cittern was a premier instrument of casual music-making much as is the guitar today."
"which largely replaced it in the nineteenth century. Gusli Gusli () is the oldest East Slavic multi-string plucked instrument, belonging to the zither family, due to its strings being parallel to its resonance board. Its roots lie in Veliky Novgorod￼ in the former Novgorodian Rus'. It may have a connection to the Byzantine form of the Greek kythare, which in turn derived from the ancient lyre, or might have been imported from Western and Central Europe during the Middle Ages, when the zither had immense popularity. It has its relatives in Europe and throughout the world: kantele in Finland, kannel"
"the strings either directly, or with a horn or wooden plectrum, or with a goose quill. Some strings functioned as drones. The scheitholt and/or hummel was played throughout the 19th century in the alpine regions in south Germany. Northern Germany, in the Erz Mountains of Saxony and in the Oberlausitz. Scheitholt The scheitholt or scheitholz is a traditional German stringed instrument and an ancestor of the modern zither. It falls into the category of drone zithers. The scheitholt may have derived from an ancient Greek instrument for theoretical education in music and physics, the so-called monochord (an oblong wooden box"
"Cimbalom The cimbalom is a type of chordophone composed of a large, trapezoidal box with metal strings stretched across its top. It is a musical instrument commonly found in the group of Central-Eastern European nations and cultures, namely contemporary Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Croatia, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus and Poland. It is also popular in Greece and in gypsy music. The cimbalom is (typically) played by striking two beaters against the strings. The steel treble strings are arranged in groups of 4 and are tuned in unison. The bass strings which are over-spun with copper, are arranged in groups of"
"Gittern The gittern was a relatively small gut strung round-backed instrument that first appears in literature and pictorial representation during the 13th century in Western Europe (Iberian Peninsula, Italy, France, England). It is usually depicted played with a quill plectrum, as we can see clearly beginning in manuscript illuminations from the thirteenth century. It was also called the guitarra in Spain, guiterne or guiterre in France, the chitarra in Italy and quintern in Germany. A popular instrument with court musicians, minstrels, and amateurs, the gittern is considered ancestral to the modern guitar and possibly to other instruments like the mandore"
"Gusli Gusli () is the oldest East Slavic multi-string plucked instrument, belonging to the zither family, due to its strings being parallel to its resonance board. Its roots lie in Veliky Novgorod￼ in the former Novgorodian Rus'. It may have a connection to the Byzantine form of the Greek kythare, which in turn derived from the ancient lyre, or might have been imported from Western and Central Europe during the Middle Ages, when the zither had immense popularity. It has its relatives in Europe and throughout the world: kantele in Finland, kannel in Estonia, kanklės in Lithuania, kokles in Latvia,"
"Zhu (string instrument) The zhu (筑; pinyin: zhù) was an ancient Chinese string instrument. Although it is no longer used, three very old specimens in varying degrees of preservation survive. One with five strings, dating to approximately 433 BC, was discovered in the Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng, in the Hubei province of central China. It first became popular during the Warring States period, when its most famous player was Gao Jianli, a citizen of the state of Yan who attracted the attention and played for Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China. The instrument remained popular through"
"Harp The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps have been known since antiquity in Asia, Africa and Europe, dating back at least as early as 3500 BC. The instrument had great popularity in Europe during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, where it evolved into a wide range of variants with new technologies, and was disseminated to Europe's colonies, finding particular popularity in Latin America. Although some ancient members of the harp family died out in the Near East"
"Zitter in Germany, citera in Czechia, psalterium in France and so on... Furthermore, the kanun has been found in Arabic countries, and the autoharp, in the United States. It is also related to such ancient instruments as Chinese gu zheng, which has a thousand-year history, and its Japanese relative koto. A stringed musical instrument called ""guslim"" is listed as one of the Me in ancient Sumer. In the times of Kievan Rus', the term ""Gusli"" is thought to simply refer to any generic stringed instrument. The root of the term comes from the word to make sound in the wind."
"logo. Harp The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps have been known since antiquity in Asia, Africa and Europe, dating back at least as early as 3500 BC. The instrument had great popularity in Europe during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, where it evolved into a wide range of variants with new technologies, and was disseminated to Europe's colonies, finding particular popularity in Latin America. Although some ancient members of the harp family died out in the Near"
"upper-Midwestern states of Minnesota and Wisconsin, the closely related stumpf fiddle or pogocello originated in Czech communities and adds small cymbals, strings, and a drum. A similar instrument, the batih, is found in Ukraine. The 'Zob Stick' variation of this instrument was constructed and named in 1968 by percussionist and songwriter Keef Trouble of the band Brett Marvin and the Thunderbolts and Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs. It is now, with the term ‘Lagerphone’, the most commonly used name for this instrument. The Brett Marvin invented term 'Zob' was taken from an old risqué UK naval term that has the"
"Guzheng The zheng () or guzheng (), also known as the Chinese zither, is a Chinese plucked string instrument with a more than 2,500-year history. The modern guzheng commonly has 21 strings, is long, and is tuned in a major pentatonic scale. It has a large, resonant soundboard made from ""Paulownia"". Other components are often made from other woods for structural or decorative reasons. Guzheng players often wear fingerpicks made from materials such as ivory, tortoiseshell, resin or hard plastic on one or both hands. The guzheng is ancestral to several other Asian zithers such as the Japanese koto, the"
"in the 20th century. Another related instrument is the Japanese ""kokyū"". Zhuihu The zhuihu (坠胡, pinyin: zhùihú; also called zhuiqin or zhuizixian) is a two-stringed bowed string instrument from China. In construction, it resembles the ""sanxian"", and likely evolved as a bowed version of that musical instrument. Unlike bowed string instruments in the huqin family (such as the ""erhu""), the ""zhuihu"" has a fretless fingerboard against which the strings are pressed while playing. The ""zhuihu"" is used to accompany a form of traditional narrative singing referred to as ""zhuizi"", which originated in the Henan province of China. A more modern"
"The modern European violin evolved from various bowed stringed instruments from the Middle East[4] the Byzantine Empire.[5][6] It is most likely that the first makers of violins borrowed from three types of current instruments: the rebec, in use since the 10th century (itself derived from the Byzantine lyra[7] and the Arabic rebab), the Renaissance fiddle, and the lira da braccio[8] (derived[5] from the Byzantine lira). One of the earliest explicit descriptions of the instrument, including its tuning, was in the Epitome musical by Jambe de Fer, published in Lyon in 1556.[9] By this time, the violin had already begun to"
"guitar, which has seven strings tuned to open G in thirds (G'-B, B-D, g-b, and b-d') with two fourths (D'-G', and D-g): English guitar The English guitar or guittar (also citra), is a stringed instrument – a type of cittern, which was popular in many places in Europe from around 1750–1850. It is unknown when the identifier 'English' became connected to the instrument at the time of its introduction to Great Britain, and during its period of popularity it was apparently simply known as ""guitar"" or ""guittar"". The instrument was also known in Norway as a ""guitarre"" and France as"
"include the hammered dulcimer and the autoharp, Box zither The box zither is a class of stringed instrument in the form of a trapezoid-shaped or rectangular, hollow box. The strings of the box zither are either struck with light hammers or plucked. Now, the most popular plucked box zither is the Arab qānūn and its various derivatives, including the harpsichord (a plucked zither controlled by a keyboard). Historically various people (Lithuanians, Latvians, Livonians, Estonians, Finns, northwest Russians) have played related box-zither type instruments (the so called Baltic psaltery) in the south east vicinity of the Baltic Sea for centuries. In"
"Erhu The erhu (; ) is a two-stringed bowed musical instrument, more specifically a spike fiddle, which may also be called a ""Southern Fiddle"", and sometimes known in the Western world as the ""Chinese violin"" or a ""Chinese two-stringed fiddle"". It is used as a solo instrument as well as in small ensembles and large orchestras. It is the most popular of the huqin family of traditional bowed string instruments used by various ethnic groups of China. A very versatile instrument, the erhu is used in both traditional and contemporary music arrangements, such as in pop, rock and jazz. The"
"Clavichord The clavichord is a European stringed rectangular keyboard instrument that was used largely in the Late Middle Ages, through the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical eras. Historically, it was mostly used as a practice instrument and as an aid to composition, not being loud enough for larger performances. The clavichord produces sound by striking brass or iron strings with small metal blades called tangents. Vibrations are transmitted through the bridge(s) to the soundboard. The name is derived from the Latin word ""clavis"", meaning ""key"" (associated with more common ""clavus"", meaning ""nail, rod, etc."") and ""chorda"" (from Greek χορδή) meaning ""string,"
"Zimber Zimber used as a surname and believed to be Germanic but the meaning is undefined. Used as a surname in Eastern Europe since the 17th Century. Zimber may be a variant of the German word Kimber or members of a historic second century Germanic ethnic group. Now called the Cimbri. Kimber (name) is also a forename and surname. Zimber and Zimmer is a German exonym for Cembra and related to the Cimbri ancestry. Zimber may also be a corruption of Zimble(r) or Tsimbl. This was an ancient medieval stringed instrument played by plucking the strings with the fingers or"
"Scheitholt The scheitholt or scheitholz is a traditional German stringed instrument and an ancestor of the modern zither. It falls into the category of drone zithers. The scheitholt may have derived from an ancient Greek instrument for theoretical education in music and physics, the so-called monochord (an oblong wooden box with only one string). Scheitholt originally referred to logs split into firewood or ""Scheitholz"" (Scheit = ""piece, chip""; Holz or Low German Holt = ""wood""). Since the 16th century, the instrument was called by that name, presumably because it had a similar shape or size. The best known description of"
"Zhuihu The zhuihu (坠胡, pinyin: zhùihú; also called zhuiqin or zhuizixian) is a two-stringed bowed string instrument from China. In construction, it resembles the ""sanxian"", and likely evolved as a bowed version of that musical instrument. Unlike bowed string instruments in the huqin family (such as the ""erhu""), the ""zhuihu"" has a fretless fingerboard against which the strings are pressed while playing. The ""zhuihu"" is used to accompany a form of traditional narrative singing referred to as ""zhuizi"", which originated in the Henan province of China. A more modern version of the ""zhuihu"" called the ""leiqin"" was developed in China"
"Box zither The box zither is a class of stringed instrument in the form of a trapezoid-shaped or rectangular, hollow box. The strings of the box zither are either struck with light hammers or plucked. Now, the most popular plucked box zither is the Arab qānūn and its various derivatives, including the harpsichord (a plucked zither controlled by a keyboard). Historically various people (Lithuanians, Latvians, Livonians, Estonians, Finns, northwest Russians) have played related box-zither type instruments (the so called Baltic psaltery) in the south east vicinity of the Baltic Sea for centuries. In the United States prominent plucked box zithers"
"have played a similar cittern at the Wartburg. Waldzither The waldzither () is a plucked string instrument from Germany that came up around 1900 in Thuringia. It is a type of cittern that has nine steel strings in five courses. Different types of waldzither come in different tunings, which are generally open tunings as usual in citterns. The most common type has the tuning C3*G3 G3*C4 C4*E4 E4*G4 G4. Producers of the waldzither attempted to establish it as a national instrument of Germany in the first half of the 20th century, when more complicated instruments were hard to get and"
"In the 20th century, the bowed psaltery came into wide use. It is set up in a triangular format so that the end portion of each string can be bowed. Similar instruments include the large cimbalom and the smaller dulcimer, both usually played using small hammers to hit the strings. Psaltery A psaltery () (or sawtry [archaic]) is a stringed instrument of the zither family. The psaltery of Ancient Greece (""epigonion"") is a harp-like instrument. The word ""psaltery"" derives from the Ancient Greek ψαλτήριον (""psaltḗrion""), ""stringed instrument, psaltery, harp"" and that from the verb ψάλλω (""psállō""), ""to touch sharply, to"
"Waldzither The waldzither () is a plucked string instrument from Germany that came up around 1900 in Thuringia. It is a type of cittern that has nine steel strings in five courses. Different types of waldzither come in different tunings, which are generally open tunings as usual in citterns. The most common type has the tuning C3*G3 G3*C4 C4*E4 E4*G4 G4. Producers of the waldzither attempted to establish it as a national instrument of Germany in the first half of the 20th century, when more complicated instruments were hard to get and to afford. Martin Luther was popularly said to"
"of gittern (chitarra) masters. Gittern The gittern was a relatively small gut strung round-backed instrument that first appears in literature and pictorial representation during the 13th century in Western Europe (Iberian Peninsula, Italy, France, England). It is usually depicted played with a quill plectrum, as we can see clearly beginning in manuscript illuminations from the thirteenth century. It was also called the guitarra in Spain, guiterne or guiterre in France, the chitarra in Italy and quintern in Germany. A popular instrument with court musicians, minstrels, and amateurs, the gittern is considered ancestral to the modern guitar and possibly to other"
"the clavichord, harpsichord and piano also fall within this broad categorical use. The word has also been used in conjunction with brand varieties of other string instruments, for example the zither banjo. The earliest known surviving instrument of the zither family is a Chinese guqin, a fretless instrument, found in the tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng dating from 433 BC. Similar instruments along this design were developed over the following centuries, for example: the Japanese silk strung koto, the siter of Indonesian gamelans; the Qānūn (or Kanun) of the Middle East; the valiha, a tube zither of Madagascar; and"
"Fiscorn A fiscorn () is a musical instrument. It is in the brass family, a bass flugelhorn in the key of C. Originally played in polka bands throughout Germany and the former Czechoslovakia, as well as in military bands in Italy, the instrument has migrated to find its home today in Catalonia. Favored over other valved low brass for its haunting mellow tone and bell front projection, the fiscorn quickly became an essential instrument of the cobla band, along with the tenora, tible and flabiol. While the instrument has been dropped from most music ensembles for intonational concerns, the instrument's"
"or five-stringed guitar called the ""chitarra battente"", and a three-stringed, bowed fiddle called the ""lira"", which is also found in similar forms in the music of Crete and Southeastern Europe. A one-stringed, bowed fiddle called the ""torototela"", is common in the northeast of the country. The largely German-speaking area of South Tyrol is known for the zither, and the ""ghironda"" (hurdy-gurdy) is found in Emilia, Piedmont and Lombardy. Existing, rooted and widespread traditions confirm the production of ephemeral and toy instruments made of bark, reed (arundo donax), leaves, fibers and stems, as it emerges, for example, from Fabio Lombardi's research."
"Mazanki The Mazanki is a type of Slavic folk musical instrument that belongs to a group of idiophones or string instruments. They were particularly popular in regions of Poland Greater Poland and in Lubusz Land and usually used along with bagpipes and/or timpani. By the 20th century it was replaced by the violin. The Mazanki is similar in shape to the violin, with the difference that it is smaller and has 3 or 5 strings that are tuned in fourths. The body and the neck are made of one piece of wood, and the soundboard is slightly raised. The bridge"
"Zurna The zurna (also called surnay, birbynė, lettish horn, zurla, surla, sornai, dili tuiduk, zournas, or zurma), is a wind instrument played in central Eurasia, western Asia and parts of North Africa. It is usually accompanied by a davul (bass drum) in Anatolian and Assyrian folk music. The zurna, like the duduk and kaval, is a woodwind instrument used to play folk music. The zurna is made from the slow-growing and hard wood of fruit trees such as plum or apricot (""Prunus armeniaca""). There are several different types of zurnas. The longest (and lowest pitched) is the kaba zurna, used"