Music #501 - Instruments - Strings

More string instruments

(web photo)

Harp

(harpist)

 

(R) Mozart - Flute and Harp Concerto

Harpo Marx on harp

 

Guitar

(guitarist)

(L) The Ventures

 

(R) The Shadows

 

(L) Maybelline scene in Cadillac Records (movie 2008)

 

(R) Johnny B. Goode

(L) The Thrill is Gone

 
(R) Sweet Home Chicago

 

 

Hotel California     House of the Rising Sun

  

 

Hawaii Wedding Song - Blue Hawaii (1961)

 

Fingerstyle

 

 

 

 

新疆传统歌曲《吉尔拉》

 

 

 

 

 

Fiddle

(fiddler)

“A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin..... The fiddle is part of many traditional (folk) styles, which are typically aural traditions—taught 'by ear' rather than via written music.” （通過口耳相傳）

Main theme of the “Fiddler on the Roof” (1971)

an interesting musical movie 

 

 

Erhu

- a 2-stringed Chinese fiddle

(L) a theme in “The Longest Day at Chang'An” 

/ 長安十二時辰

 
(R) The Second Spring Reflecting the Moon / 二泉映月

(L) Double-Star Misery (quintet) / 雙星恨 (五架頭)

 

(R) Horse Racing / 賽馬

Rebec 

“... is a bowed stringed instrument of the Medieval era and the early Renaissance. In its most common form, it has a narrow boat-shaped body and 1-5 strings.”

Morin khuur (aka horsehead fiddle) / 馬頭琴

- a Mongolian fiddle with its scroll end in the shape of a horse head

(L) Ode to the Great Khan / 大汗頌

  

(L) Thousands of Galloping Horses / 萬馬奔騰

Lyre

(lyre player)