List of string instruments

Stringed instruments by method

Bowed

Plucked or strummed

Struck or tapped

• Appalachian dulcimer (United States)
• Berimbau (Brazil)
• Cimbalom (Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Romania)
• Chapman stick (United States)
  • Chapman Stick
  • Grand Stick
  • Bass Stick
• Chitarra battente, aka "knocking guitar" (Italy)
• Clavichord (keyboard instrument)
• Clavinet (electric keyboard instrument)
• Đàn tam thập lục (Vietnam)
• Hammered dulcimer
• Khim (Thailand and Cambodia)
• Piano (Keyboard instrument)
• Santur/Santoor (Persia, India, Pakistan, Greece)
• Tsymbaly (Ukraine)
• Warr guitar
• Yanggeum (Korea)
• Yangqin (China)

Other methods

• Aeolian harp (air movement)
• Hurdy-gurdy (rotating wheel, similar in effect to a bow)
• Long String Instrument, (by Ellen Fullman, strings are rubbed in, and vibrate in the longitudinal mode)
• Magnetic Resonance Piano, (strings activated by electromagnetic fields)

Stringed instruments with keyboards

• Magnetic Resonance Piano
• Xenorphica

Struck

• Clavichord
  • Clavinet
• Piano

Plucked

• Harpsichord

Bowed

• Nyckelharpa
• Hurdy-gurdy
• Viola organista
  • Wheelharp

Stringed instruments by country

See also

• List of guitars

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