Plucked string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by plucking the strings. Plucking is a way of pulling and releasing the string in such a way as to give it an impulse that causes the string to vibrate. Plucking can be done with either a finger or a plectrum.
Most plucked string instruments belong to the lute family (such as guitar, bass guitar, mandolin, banjo, balalaika, sitar, pipa, etc.), which generally consist of a resonating body, and a neck; the strings run along the neck and can be stopped at different pitches. The zither family (including the autoharp, kantele, gusli, kannel, kankles, kokle, koto, guqin, gu zheng and many others) does not have a neck, and the strings are stretched across the soundboard. In the harp family (including the lyre), the strings are perpendicular to the soundboard and do not run across it. The harpsichord does not fit any of these categories but is also a plucked string instrument, as its strings are struck with a plectrum when the keys are depressed.
It is also possible to divide the instruments in groups focused on how the instrument is played.
Types of playing techniques
All string instruments produce sound from one or more vibrating strings, transferred to the air by the body of the instrument (or by a pickup in the case of electronically amplified instruments). They are usually categorized by the technique used to make the strings vibrate (or by the primary technique, in the case of instruments where more than one may apply.) The three most common techniques are plucking, bowing, and striking. An important difference between bowing and plucking is that in the former the phenonemon is periodic, so that the overtones are kept in a strictly harmonic relationship to the fundamental.
Video to introduce children to different instruments that are played by being plucked. It includes 30 second clips of 15 different instruments being played.
published: 17 Mar 2018
Motion of Plucked String
What happens to a string when it is plucked?
published: 24 Feb 2011
Plucking Britain on the Strings《弹扫英伦》—— CCOM Plucked String Instruments Ensemble 中央音乐学院弹拨乐团
Composed by: Xie Aitong
Conductor: Cui Yuanyuan
Performed by: Central Conservatory of Music Plucked String Instruments Ensemble
This piece is an adaptation of the English folk song “Greensleves” and an excerpt from “The Phantom of the Opera” written by the British musical master Andrew Lloyd Webber. Whilst retaining the melodies of these two pieces, the music uses the “stricking” and “plucking” playing techniques of Chinese plucked string instruments to present a variety of acoustic forms, bringing a different auditory experience to the audience.
乐曲改编自英国民谣《绿袖子》和英国音乐剧大师韦伯所创作的《歌剧魅影》选段。乐曲在保留两首原作旋律的基础上，通过运用中国弹拨乐器中的弹扫等演奏技术，试图展现多方面的音响形态，从而带给听众不同的听觉体验。
published: 14 May 2021
Dramyin - Tibetan Plucked String Instrument
Dramyin is a traditional Tibetan plucked string instrument with a long history of using in the religious festivals. Mr. Qimei Douji was a Yangqin master, and he’s invited to give lessons to some folk music lovers at the public art museum after his retirement. In this interview, Mr. Qimei Douji introduces the structure of dramyin, its unique tone and performing skills. He sings when playing the dramyin and people are attracted to dance along with the music.
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Vive la mandoline, E. Jacovacci, ATTIKA Plucked String Orchestra
Vive la mandoline, Édouard Jacovacci (1875-1939)
(arranged for ATTIKA: Aris Dimitriadis)
ATTIKA Plucked String Orchestra ::: Ορχήστρα Νυκτών Εγχόρδων
http://www.attikaorchestra.gr
a-mandolins: Aris Dimitriadis, Odysseas Korelis, Maria Filippidi
b-mandolins: Christos Takos, Yiannis Arvanitakis
mandola alto: Maria Stelliou
mandola tenore: Yiannis Goumenakis
accordion: Dimos Vougioukas
classical guitar: Dimitris Koufogiorgos
double bass: Yiannis Karamaniolas
piano: Nikos Velonias
Από τη συναυλία της Ορχήστρας στο Ξυλόκαστρο (6 Αυγούστου 2011)
Live performance in Xylokastro (6th August 2011)
Plucked String | Stretched String | Vibration of string | Part 3
Topic: Solution of the wave equation for a Plucked string| Stretched string | Vibration of String
This is a part of the video lecture series on the vibration of a stretched string. In this video, a detailed step by step solution of the wave equation for a plucked stretched string is given. A complete picture of the plucked string is given in this video. This is mostly suitable for B.Sc, B.Tech, and (10+2) students.
Link for the first Part: Derivation of the Wave equation for a stretched string
https://youtu.be/tHGPpag18NM
Link for the second Part: Solution of the Wave equation for a stretched string
https://youtu.be/Jd2VSLB3zbI
Video to introduce children to different instruments that are played by being plucked. It includes 30 second clips of 15 different instruments being played.
Video to introduce children to different instruments that are played by being plucked. It includes 30 second clips of 15 different instruments being played.
Video to introduce children to different instruments that are played by being plucked. It includes 30 second clips of 15 different instruments being played.
Composed by: Xie Aitong
Conductor: Cui Yuanyuan
Performed by: Central Conservatory of Music Plucked String Instruments Ensemble
This piece is an adaptation of ...
Composed by: Xie Aitong
Conductor: Cui Yuanyuan
Performed by: Central Conservatory of Music Plucked String Instruments Ensemble
This piece is an adaptation of the English folk song “Greensleves” and an excerpt from “The Phantom of the Opera” written by the British musical master Andrew Lloyd Webber. Whilst retaining the melodies of these two pieces, the music uses the “stricking” and “plucking” playing techniques of Chinese plucked string instruments to present a variety of acoustic forms, bringing a different auditory experience to the audience.
乐曲改编自英国民谣《绿袖子》和英国音乐剧大师韦伯所创作的《歌剧魅影》选段。乐曲在保留两首原作旋律的基础上，通过运用中国弹拨乐器中的弹扫等演奏技术，试图展现多方面的音响形态，从而带给听众不同的听觉体验。
Composed by: Xie Aitong
Conductor: Cui Yuanyuan
Performed by: Central Conservatory of Music Plucked String Instruments Ensemble
This piece is an adaptation of the English folk song “Greensleves” and an excerpt from “The Phantom of the Opera” written by the British musical master Andrew Lloyd Webber. Whilst retaining the melodies of these two pieces, the music uses the “stricking” and “plucking” playing techniques of Chinese plucked string instruments to present a variety of acoustic forms, bringing a different auditory experience to the audience.
乐曲改编自英国民谣《绿袖子》和英国音乐剧大师韦伯所创作的《歌剧魅影》选段。乐曲在保留两首原作旋律的基础上，通过运用中国弹拨乐器中的弹扫等演奏技术，试图展现多方面的音响形态，从而带给听众不同的听觉体验。
Dramyin is a traditional Tibetan plucked string instrument with a long history of using in the religious festivals. Mr. Qimei Douji was a Yangqin master, and he...
Topic: Solution of the wave equation for a Plucked string| Stretched string | Vibration of String
This is a part of the video lecture series on the vibration ...
Topic: Solution of the wave equation for a Plucked string| Stretched string | Vibration of String
This is a part of the video lecture series on the vibration of a stretched string. In this video, a detailed step by step solution of the wave equation for a plucked stretched string is given. A complete picture of the plucked string is given in this video. This is mostly suitable for B.Sc, B.Tech, and (10+2) students.
Link for the first Part: Derivation of the Wave equation for a stretched string
https://youtu.be/tHGPpag18NM
Link for the second Part: Solution of the Wave equation for a stretched string
https://youtu.be/Jd2VSLB3zbI
Topic: Solution of the wave equation for a Plucked string| Stretched string | Vibration of String
This is a part of the video lecture series on the vibration of a stretched string. In this video, a detailed step by step solution of the wave equation for a plucked stretched string is given. A complete picture of the plucked string is given in this video. This is mostly suitable for B.Sc, B.Tech, and (10+2) students.
Link for the first Part: Derivation of the Wave equation for a stretched string
https://youtu.be/tHGPpag18NM
Link for the second Part: Solution of the Wave equation for a stretched string
https://youtu.be/Jd2VSLB3zbI
Video to introduce children to different instruments that are played by being plucked. It includes 30 second clips of 15 different instruments being played.
Composed by: Xie Aitong
Conductor: Cui Yuanyuan
Performed by: Central Conservatory of Music Plucked String Instruments Ensemble
This piece is an adaptation of the English folk song “Greensleves” and an excerpt from “The Phantom of the Opera” written by the British musical master Andrew Lloyd Webber. Whilst retaining the melodies of these two pieces, the music uses the “stricking” and “plucking” playing techniques of Chinese plucked string instruments to present a variety of acoustic forms, bringing a different auditory experience to the audience.
乐曲改编自英国民谣《绿袖子》和英国音乐剧大师韦伯所创作的《歌剧魅影》选段。乐曲在保留两首原作旋律的基础上，通过运用中国弹拨乐器中的弹扫等演奏技术，试图展现多方面的音响形态，从而带给听众不同的听觉体验。
Topic: Solution of the wave equation for a Plucked string| Stretched string | Vibration of String
This is a part of the video lecture series on the vibration of a stretched string. In this video, a detailed step by step solution of the wave equation for a plucked stretched string is given. A complete picture of the plucked string is given in this video. This is mostly suitable for B.Sc, B.Tech, and (10+2) students.
Link for the first Part: Derivation of the Wave equation for a stretched string
https://youtu.be/tHGPpag18NM
Link for the second Part: Solution of the Wave equation for a stretched string
https://youtu.be/Jd2VSLB3zbI
Plucked string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by plucking the strings. Plucking is a way of pulling and releasing the string in such a way as to give it an impulse that causes the string to vibrate. Plucking can be done with either a finger or a plectrum.
Most plucked string instruments belong to the lute family (such as guitar, bass guitar, mandolin, banjo, balalaika, sitar, pipa, etc.), which generally consist of a resonating body, and a neck; the strings run along the neck and can be stopped at different pitches. The zither family (including the autoharp, kantele, gusli, kannel, kankles, kokle, koto, guqin, gu zheng and many others) does not have a neck, and the strings are stretched across the soundboard. In the harp family (including the lyre), the strings are perpendicular to the soundboard and do not run across it. The harpsichord does not fit any of these categories but is also a plucked string instrument, as its strings are struck with a plectrum when the keys are depressed.
During his performance, he mentioned that his first tanpura, a plucked string instrument, was made in Meerut, through which he began learning Indian classical music.He said while speaking to the ...
In it, he portrays the magnificent imperial palace by using instruments, such as the pipa (a four-stringed Chinese lute), the ruan (a traditional plucked instrument) and the sheng (ancient Chinese wind instrument).
Using the traditional pentatonic scale of Chinese music, Tse captures both the sound of plucked traditional instruments as well as the beautiful bowed erhu, perhaps the oldest bowed stringed instrument on the planet ... The concert will be live streamed.
MAGIC... Now I know why ... ALBERT LEE – He emerged from the ‘60s London folk scene, playing with the likes of Clapton and The Everly Brothers, to be respected as one of the best to ever pluck a string. He is a masterful picker, on several instruments ... Miss ... .
These ancient classical works are usually performed with musical instruments, such as the pipa, dongxiao (an end-blown bamboo flute), erxian (a two-stringed plucked instrument), sanxian (a three-stringed plucked instrument) and bamboo clappers.
...Timur Zolotarev, the guitarist and backing vocalist, and Lhasaranova, who sings and also plays the Buryat-Mongolian instrument called the yataga (a plucked string instrument from the zither family).
Zhou Xinyi and Deng Nan, two girls in their twenties from Henan, played the guzheng (a Chinese plucked string instrument) during a Ba YiDance performance, a traditional drum-accompanied dance ... "As a performer, I felt deeply moved during the show ... .
It’s a little tangy, the sound of the erhu,” a Chinese two-stringed bowed instrument. “It’s a little mournful,” and has a large pizzicato section, where the strings are plucked instead of bowed.
It features three people clad in long robes in a bamboo forest near a creek, who are playing an instrument, the four-stringed ruan ... The ruan is a Chinese plucked string instrument with a long neck and a circular body that is more than 2,000 years old.
Within a few months, several people successfully mastered playing musical instruments like the jaw harp, known as "kouxian" in Chinese, and a plucked string instrument of the Nu ethnic group called "Dabiya."
... a 'PandaFamily' and a monument to Russian-Chinese friendship in the form of traditional musical instruments - the 'Chinese lute' (or 'pipa', a plucked string instrument) and the Russian 'balalaika'.
... friendship in the form of traditional musical instruments - the ‘Chinese lute’ (or ‘pipa’, a plucked string instrument) and the Russian ‘balalaika’.4.
Mita Nag's instrument) The SITAR is a plucked string instrument used widely in Hindustani classical music... or 21 strings, and is played by plucking the six or seven strings that run over raised frets.
