Musical Instruments of Europe

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OF EUROPE.
GUITAR:
The guitar is a plucked string musical instrument , composed of a wooden box, a neck on
which the fingerboard or storage room is attached - generally with an acoustic hole in the
center of the top (soundhole) -, and six strings. The frets are embedded on the fingerboard,
which allow the different notes . Its specific name is classical guitar , Spanish guitar ,
Creole guitar or acoustic guitar .
It is the most used instrument in genres such as blues , rock , metal and flamenco , and
quite common in singer-songwriters . It is also used in genres such as tango , rancheras and
gruperas, in addition to folklore from several countries.
It is a fundamental part of the pulse and púa or rondalla orchestra, along with the bandurria
and the Spanish lute .
Instruments in the guitar family are the ukulele , the requinto , the charango and the
guitarrón . This last one is frequently used by mariachis .
HARP:
For other uses of this term, see Harp (disambiguation) .
Young man playing the harp, 19th century painting.
The harp 1 is a plucked string instrument composed of a resonant frame and a variable
series of strings stretched between the lower and upper sections. The strings can be plucked
with the fingers or with a plectrum or plectrum . In addition to the classical harp, currently
used in orchestras , there are other types, such as the Celtic harp, the Andean harp and the
Paraguayan harp.
The harp is the national musical instrument of Ireland , Paraguay and Peru .
FIDDLE:
The violin (etymology: from Italian violino , diminutive of viola or viella ) is a bowed
string instrument that has four strings. The strings are tuned by intervals of fifths :
 sun 3
 d4
 the 4
 my 5
(The number is indicated according to the International Acoustic Index , which is used
throughout the world except France and Belgium . According to this index the middle C of
the piano is a C 4 ) 1
The lowest sounding string is G 3 , and then followed, in increasing order, D 4 , A 4 and E 5 .
On the violin the first string to be tuned is the A ; This is commonly tuned to a frequency of
440 Hz , using as a reference a classical forked metal tuning fork or, since the late 20th
century, an electronic tuning fork . In orchestras and groups, the violin is usually tuned to
442 Hz , since environmental conditions such as temperature, or the progressive loosening
of the strings cause them to go out of tune, and to compensate for this they are tuned
somewhat higher. The body of the violin has a domed shape, with a stylized silhouette
determined by an upper and lower curvature with a C-shaped narrowing at the waist. The
violin tops are modeled with gentle curves that provide the vaulting characteristic. The
hoops, which go around the violin giving the silhouette, are low in height, the neck has a
certain angle of inclination backwards with respect to the vertical, longitudinal axis and is
topped by a snail called a volute. The internal structure of the violin is made up of two
fundamental elements in the sound production of the instrument: the sound bar and the truss
rod. The soundbar runs along the top just below the low strings and the truss rod is located
just below the right foot of the bridge where the high strings are located.
Violin music scores almost always use the treble clef , formerly called "violin clef." The
violin does not have frets , unlike the guitar . It is the smallest and sharpest of the family of
classical string instruments, which includes the viola , cello and double bass , which, except
for the double bass, are all derived from medieval violas, especially the fidula .
BANDONEON:
The bandoneon is a bellows-powered , free (or free-reed) wind musical instrument , a

relative of the concertina ( Konzertina in German), with a rectangular shape and square
section and a particular timbre . Its original name in German is bandonion , but its
Castilianization in the Río de la Plata established the word "bandoneón" to name the
instrument in Spanish. 1
It was initially designed in Germany as an evolution of previous free-reed instruments such

as the concertina among others. It is said that its use was initially as a portable organ to play
religious music; hence its unique sacred and melancholic sound. Upon arriving in the Río
de la Plata with the help of sailors and immigrants, it was adopted by musicians of the time
and thus collaborated in the formation of the particular sound of the River Plate tango ,
becoming a true symbol of it.
ACCORDION:
For the student term, see hidden note .
Blind musician playing the accordion, in Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico.
The accordion is a wind musical instrument , of Polish origin, made up of a bellows , a

tuning fork and two wooden sound boxes .
At both ends the bellows are closed by wooden boxes. The right-hand part of the accordion
additionally has a "tuning fork" with an arrangement of keys that can be piano -like ( piano
accordion ) or round keys (also called buttons) ( chromatic accordion ) depending on the
type of accordion; The left hand part has buttons on both types of accordion to play the bass
and accompaniment chords, also by operating a lever the bass system is changed, passing to
the BASSETI system that places the first 4 rows from the outside with chromatic notes and
therefore octaves, while the last two are left as basses and double basses without octaves. It
is very popular in the Basque Country , Navarra , Asturias , Cantabria , Galicia and
northern Castile ( Spain ), Paris ( France ), central Europe ( Germany , Austria ), southern
Italy , the Caribbean Coast of Colombia , Panama , Mexico , northeastern Argentina , the
Dominican Republic , Peru and Chile for its connection with folklore . For the similar
instrument used in Argentina and Uruguay , see: Bandoneón . The accordion is also widely
used throughout Brazil, both the keys and the buttons from the north to the south of the
country in various musical styles and rhythms.
Hear the sound of the accordion
This instrument may seem like a percussion string instrument when you see the keys like
those of a piano, but even so the accordion is a mechanical wind instrument, since it does
not work through human blowing, but through a mechanism.

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For other uses of this term, see Harp (disambiguation) .

Young man playing the harp, 19th century painting.

The bandoneon is a bellows-powered , free (or free-reed) wind musical instrument , a

It was initially designed in Germany as an evolution of previous free-reed instruments such

Blind musician playing the accordion, in Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico.

The accordion is a wind musical instrument , of Polish origin, made up of a bellows , a

Hear the sound of the accordion

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