The Spanish bandurria, still used today, is a similar instrument.

While the Spanish guitar is widely played, so too is the Spanish-in-origin bandurria.

Its music is determined by the heavy use of string instruments as the bandurria or the Spanish guitar and percussion instruments like the castanets (" castañuelas " or " postizas ") and the tambourine.

Salamanca is home to tuna, a form of serenade played on guitar, bandurria and tambourine, traditionally by students in medieval clothing.

It is descended from the Spanish guitar family, in contrast to the Cuatro, that descends from the family of bandurria.

The Philippine harp bandurria is a 14-string bandurria used in many Philippine folkloric songs, with 16 frets and shorter neck than the 18 string bandurria.

The Filipino bandurria is used in an orchestra of plucked string instruments called rondalla.

Some etymologists believe it comes from a dialectal pronunciation of the Portuguese " bandore " or from an early anglicisation of the Spanish word " bandurria ", though other research suggests that it may come from a West African term for a bamboo stick formerly used for the instrument's neck.

It may have evolved from the vihuela, bandurria ( mandolin ), or the lute.

The Spanish bandurria, though this term was once also interchangeable, now applies to a treble instrument like a mandolin-a similar confusion as has occurred with mandore, mandora, mandola ( q. v .).

Prior to the 18th century, the bandurria had with a round back, similar or related to the mandore.

One combined a mandolin and a guitar ( along with four bass strings operated with slides ), the other combined guitar and the Spanish bandurria, the latter being an instrument Williamson had played since the early days of the Corrie Folk Trio.

Jota instruments include the castanets, guitar, bandurria, tambourines and sometimes the flute.

Traditional instruments include bagpipes, drums, flutes, tambourines, rattles and, perhaps most distinctively, the guitarro and bandurria.

Williamson's instrument featured a basic guitar fingerboard with a bandurria attached and sympathetic resonating strings.

Among birds we find the huala, the pato vapor volador, the bandurria, the pitío and the zorzal patagónico.

The prima balalaika is played with the fingers, the secunda and alto either with the fingers or a plectrum, depending on the music being played, and the bass and contrabass ( equipped with extension legs that rest on the floor ) are played with leather plectrums.

The side of the index finger of the right hand is used to sound notes on the prima, while a plectrum is used on the larger sizes.

One can play the prima with a plectrum, but it is considered rather heterodox to do so.

This is usually a piece of laminated plastic or other material that protects the finish of the top of the guitar from damage due to the use of a plectrum or fingernails.

This lifts a jack, a long strip of wood, to which is attached a small plectrum ( a wedge-shaped piece of quill or, nowadays plastic ), which plucks the string.

* In the jack, a plectrum juts out almost horizontally ( normally the plectrum is angled upwards a tiny amount ) and passes just under the string.

* When the front of the key is pressed, the back of the key rises, the jack is lifted, and the plectrum plucks the string.

When the key is pressed, the jack is raised, and the plectrum touches the string and begins to bend.

* When the key is released, the jack falls back down under its own weight, and the plectrum passes back under the string.

This is made possible by having the plectrum held in a tongue which is attached with a pivot and a spring to the body of the jack.

The bottom surface of the plectrum is cut at a slant ; thus when the descending plectrum touches the string from above, the angled lower surface provides enough force to push the tongue backward.

Chord-melody is often played with a plectrum ( see Tal Farlow, George Benson and others ); whereas fingerstyle, as practised by Joe Pass, George van Eps, Ted Greene, Lenny Breau or hybrid picking as practised by Ed Bickert and others allows for a more complex, polyphonic approach to unaccompanied soloing.

A quill or shaped piece of tortoise shell is used as a plectrum.

The piano hammer mechanism produces a louder note the faster the key is pressed while the harpsichord's plectrum mechanism does not perceptibly vary the volume of the note with different touch on the keyboard.

* Lyre: Its construction is similar to a small harp, although instead of being plucked, it is strummed with a plectrum.

Plucking is used as a method of playing on instruments such as the banjo, ukulele, guitar, harp, lute, mandolin, oud, sitar, and either by a finger or thumb, or by some type of plectrum.

In keyboard instruments, the contact point along the string ( whether this be hammer, tangent, or plectrum ) is a choice made by the instrument designer.

The origin of the name oud ( and its etymological cousin, lute ) for the musical instrument is uncertain, but the Arabic العود ( al-ʿūd ) refers literally to a thin piece of wood similar to the shape of a straw, and may refer to the wooden plectrum traditionally used for playing the oud, to the thin strips of wood used for the back, or to the wooden soundboard that distinguished it from similar instruments with skin-faced bodies.

In the membranophone class, for instance, suffixes can indicate whether the skin of a drum is glued, nailed or tied to its body ; in the chordophone class, suffixes can indicate whether the strings are plucked with fingers or plectrum, or played with a bow.

A chordophone is any musical instrument that makes sound by way of a vibrating string or strings stretched between two points.

The krar, a chordophone, is usually decorated with wood, cloth and beads.

More traditional Finnish instruments include the kantele, which is a chordophone, and was used in the Kalevala by the hero Väinämöinen.

The tres is a 3-course, 6-string chordophone which was created in Cuba.

It is a string instrument or chordophone.

It is a chordophone made up of a trapezoidal box with metal ( steel or bronze ) strings strung across it.

The cimbalom is a concert hammered dulcimer: a type of chordophone composed of a large, trapezoidal box with metal strings stretched across its top.

Malagasy music is highly melodic and distinguishes itself from many traditions of mainland Africa by the predominance of chordophone relative to percussion instruments.

The jejy voatavo is a chordophone that traditionally has two sisal strings, three frets and a calabash resonator, although modern versions may have as many as eleven or thirteen strings, typically made of steel.

Inuit culture is one of the few New World cultures to have a chordophone tradition.

The xalam, in its standard form, is a simple lute chordophone with one to five strings.

The kanklės ( pronounced ) is a Lithuanian plucked string musical instrument ( chordophone ), of the zither family.

Tiple ( pronounced as: tee-pleh ) is the Spanish word for treble or soprano, is often applied to specific instruments, generally to refer to a small chordophone of the guitar family.

The ruan is now most commonly used in Chinese opera and the Chinese orchestra, where it belongs to the plucked string ( 弹拨乐 or chordophone ) section.

It is arguably the most complex chordophone of Africa.

The šargija ( Cyrillic: Шаргија, ) is a plucked, fretted long necked chordophone used in the folk music of various Balkan countries, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Albania, Kosovo and Serbia.

The cigar box guitar is a primitive chordophone that uses an empty cigar box for a resonator.