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Overview of String Instruments

The document provides an overview of various string instruments, detailing their characteristics, sound qualities, and acoustic treatment needs. It discusses the violin, viola, cello, double bass, clavichord, harpsichord, tiorba, lavinaindia, harp, cimbalom, and piano, highlighting their unique features and historical significance. Each instrument's range, size, and sound production methods are also described.

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Overview of String Instruments

The document provides an overview of various string instruments, detailing their characteristics, sound qualities, and acoustic treatment needs. It discusses the violin, viola, cello, double bass, clavichord, harpsichord, tiorba, lavinaindia, harp, cimbalom, and piano, highlighting their unique features and historical significance. Each instrument's range, size, and sound production methods are also described.

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STRING INSTRUMENTS

The violin is an instrument


agile, with a bright sound and
stamped, it is advisable to deal with him

acoustically with certain


reverberation. On
directional characteristic is
frequency function, radiating maximum energy at high frequencies in the
transversal direction to the butt.
The viola compared to the violin is somewhat larger in size, producing a
sweet, soft and somewhat dull sound, needs acoustic treatment with panels of
reinforcement. In the viola, the body is more shaped.
longer than that of the violin ending in a sharp angle
about the handle, with C-shaped holes.
The cello has a range
more serious than the violin with its
four strings tuned an octave lower than the
viola, produce a rich and beautiful sound, with a timbre
warm and velvety.
The double bass is the instrument of this group that has the lowest range and
of larger dimension, distinguishing itself from the others in that its tuning is in
fourths instead of fifths. It produces a full and very low sound, needing
an acoustic treatment that provides a notable reverb.

The clavichord is a keyboard instrument, in the


that the strings are plucked by plectrums, through a mechanism
driven by a keyboard. In the harpsichord, each key goes
connected to a small piece of wood, called
martinet, where the spike is fixed.

The tiorba were in a certain way.


precursors of the modern guitar, which has
reached its maximum development in
Spain. The degree of amplification of its sound can be
control in such a way that when the sound originates
Hitting the string, it sounds very soft.
Lavinaindia is generally made of two large pumpkins,
that act as resonators. There is on these pumpkins
a flat board for the use of fingers that used to be
it was made of bamboo and on which its
seven strings.

The harp is one of the oldest musical instruments formed


by a series of strings of different lengths and tensioned over a
frame, representing each string a certain note. In the
harp, the strings vibrate when plucked with the fingers
with both hands.

The clavichord was a precursor of the piano, in which the


strings are struck from below, using a
metallic strip, remains in contact with the string.
This allows the performer to make it vibrate.
the note after hitting the string and, through
a greater pressure

The cimbalom is
probably an instrument of Oriental origin.
Its primitive forms, called "santir", are
known in Iran, Arabia, and the Caucasus. The
modern color system is used in our
days for the gypsies of Hungary. This is played
instrument hitting the string with two mallets.

The piano is a keyboard instrument whose strings are


hit by small hammers covered in felt. In
the piano strikes the string instantly, because
what the vibration is free and the note emitted is seen
enriched with the harmonics of the vibration
dampened produced..

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