Chordophone

A chordophone is any musical instrument which produces sound commonly by vibrating a string or strings stretched between two points.

What most westerners would call string instruments are classified as chordophones (for example, violins, guitars and harps).

Chordophone Media

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  Various string instruments; mostly lute family instruments

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  Viol, fidel and rebec (from left to right) on display at Amakusa Korejiyokan in Amakusa, Kumamoto, Japan

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  A woman playing some kind of string instrument while riding a horse, Tang dynasty

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  String fingering is proportional and not fixed, as on the piano

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  The strings of a piano

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  Arab string musical instrument on display at the Debbane Palace museum, Lebanon

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  The Moroccan loutar uses a soundboard made of goatskin.