chordophone
Let an agent explain chordophones and their classification, relay the Hornbostel-Sachs subdivisions, acoustics and playing techniques from organological sources, describe the instruments the registry aliases name, and distinguish chordophones from other instrument classes and from the Western string family in the narrow sense.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain chordophones and their classification, relay the Hornbostel-Sachs subdivisions, acoustics and playing techniques from organological sources, describe the instruments the registry aliases name, and distinguish chordophones from other instrument classes and from the Western string family in the narrow sense.
A musical instrument that produces sound from vibrating strings, one of the main classes in the Hornbostel-Sachs system, including lutes, zithers, harps, lyres and musical bows, and instruments from many cultures such as the Indian alpini and eka-tantri vinas, the Vietnamese dan tam thap luc hammered dulcimer, the Chinese huqin bowed fiddles, the Mexican vihuela, the Dobro resonator guitar and the Satong of Borneo; chordophones are played by plucking, bowing or striking.
What it is for: Making music with strings.
It can be explain classification; relay acoustics and techniques; describe specific instruments; distinguish related classes.
Distinguishing features
Vibrating strings
Plucked, bowed or struck
Global diversity
Resonator variety
What it looks like
Instruments with strings over a resonator, from guitars to zithers.
Physical character
Hornbostel-Sachs class: 3 number
subdivisions: simple and composite chordophones list
oldest evidence: musical bows in rock art note - prehistoric
How it is recognised
Instrument sounded by vibrating strings
Vinas, dan tam thap luc, huqin, Mexican vihuela, Dobro, Satong
Aerophones use air; membranophones use skins; idiophones vibrate themselves; the string family is the Western orchestral subset
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
is classified in - as class 3
is exemplified by - a widespread lute
is contrasted with - sounded by air
In practice
Families and kinds
zithers including hammered dulcimers such as the dan tam thap luc
lutes including guitars, the Mexican vihuela and the Dobro
bowed lutes such as the huqin and violin
harps and lyres
vinas and stick zithers of India
musical bows and regional instruments such as the Satong
Standards and regulation
No regulation; CITES rules on instrument materials such as rosewood and ivory
Failure modes and hazards
Equating chordophones with the Western string family
Registry aliases naming disparate specific instruments
Material restrictions in trade
Also called
+62
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.chordophone
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What a chordophone is.
Definition.
Definition
Definition and classification.
Definition
Definition.
- What is a chordophone, how does Hornbostel-Sachs subdivide the class, and how does it differ from the Western string family? definition
- Is the question about the class, a subclass or a specific instrument? boundary
Instruments
Named instruments.
Instruments
Instruments.
- What are the alpini and eka-tantri vinas, the dan tam thap luc, huqin, Mexican vihuela, Dobro and Satong? definition
- Which entry fits the specific instrument? action
Acoustics Acoustics and technique.
Science.
Sound
How strings sound.
Sound
Sound.
- How do string tension, length, resonators and materials shape sound? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Technique
Playing techniques.
Technique
Technique.
- How are chordophones plucked, bowed and struck across traditions? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
World World traditions.
Sources.
Asia
Asian chordophones.
Asia
Asia.
- What roles do vinas, huqin and hammered dulcimers play in Asian musics? provenance
- Which entry fits the specific tradition? action
Americas
Americas and elsewhere.
Americas
Americas.
- How did the Mexican vihuela, the Dobro and other instruments develop? provenance
- Which entry fits the specific instrument? action
Context History and making.
Context.
History
History.
History
History.
- How did chordophones evolve from musical bows to modern instruments? provenance
- Which entry fits the history of musical instruments? action
Making
Instrument making.
Making
Making.
- How are chordophones built, and what material rules apply? provenance
- Which entry fits luthier? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should zither, lute and harp be the primary linked entries?
- How should organological sources be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming specific instruments from several cultures; should they be split off?