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lyre

Musical equipment; String instruments

A plucked stringed musical instrument having strings fixed between a crossbar supported by the arms; specially, such an ancient Greek instrument with outwardly curved arms, usu.payed with a plectrum ...

veena

Musical equipment; String instruments

In the Indian subcontinent, a plucked musical instrument with a gourd at one or either end of a fretted finger -board and seven strings.

matouqin

Musical equipment; String instruments

A kind of traditional Mongolian bowed stringed instruments.

konghou

Musical equipment; String instruments

A kind of ancient Chinese plucked stringed instrument.

erhu

Musical equipment; String instruments

A two-stringed bowed musical instrument, more specifically a spike fiddle, which may also be called a "southern fiddle", and sometimes known in the Western world as the "Chinese violin" or a "Chinese ...