There is a diverse array of instruments under the strings category, one of which is the most versatile and unique of all the stringed instruments. Read through and find out. (:
In the 1500s and 1600s there were the six-stringed instrument called the viol, then the violin emerged which is a smaller instrument and makes a louder sound than the viol. Violinists made marks in music like the Italian musician Niccolo Paganini, modern violinists Yehudi Menuhin and Korean Kyung Wah Chung. Then there’s the family of strings which can form the string quintet. Besides the violin, there’s the viola, cello and double bass. Charles Mingus is an American jazz musician who plays double bass standing up.
Lyres and harps are popular all over the world during the ancient times. From the legend of Orpheus playing the lyre, to religious festivals of Africa, lyres and harps were used. The lute is another kind which is plucked like a guitar. Banjos and ukeleles were played in America and England, sitars made raga music in India, zithers were played in China, Japan, and Korea, while guitars originated in Spain. There were classical, acoustic and folk guitars, until in the later years electric guitars were developed. Orville Gibson, Les Paul and Leo Fender are just three of the well-known names in guitar making. When it comes to guitar playing, one of the legends is American guitarist Jimi Hendrix.
A keyboard is also a stringed instrument, which includes the clavichord, harpsichord and the piano. If you open the lid and look inside, there you’ll find the strings. But the most versatile and unique of all stringed instruments is the chords found in your voice box. The human voice has its own vibrating strings and resonator in just the same way as a stringed instrument like the guitar does. You sing high notes by tightening your vocal chords; low notes are created when your vocal chords become looser. We have a range such as the soprano, alto, tenor and bass. The three tenors Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti are among the great singers of the world, thus have great stringed instruments in them!