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Introduction to Stringed Instruments, pt 2

February 3rd, 2010 — Acoustic Musical Instruments

In the last post in this series we started talking about stringed instruments and the different varieties. We listed plucked stringed instruments, and will now talk about instruments that are played by bowing, striking and other methods.
Bowing is a method that is used with some string instruments, including the violin, the viola, the cello, the [...]

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