* Appalachian dulcimer, a fretted, plucked musical instrument which is also referred to as a " mountain dulcimer ", " lap dulcimer ", " fretted dulcimer ", or " hog fiddle "

Ruth is a singer and songwriter, who plays the fretted dulcimer.

Instruments typically used to perform Appalachian music include the banjo, American fiddle, fretted dulcimer, and guitar.

The Appalachian dulcimer ( or mountain dulcimer ) is a fretted string instrument of the zither family, typically with three or four strings.

However, several diatonic fretted zithers exist in Continental Europe that have a strong similarity to the dulcimer.

In their book In Search of the Wild dulcimer, Robert Force and Al d ' Ossché describe their preferred method as " guitar style ": The dulcimer hangs from a strap around the neck, and the instrument is fretted and strummed like a guitar.

* dulcitar or stick dulcimer: a long-necked fretted instrument, similar to a guitar or mandolin, with diatonic dulcimer fretting.

* Dulcimer Players News, a magazine in publication since 1974, for hammered and fretted " dulcimer " enthusiasts.

Instruments typically used to perform Appalachian music include the banjo, American fiddle, fretted dulcimer, and guitar.

Unrelated to the hammered dulcimer, the fretted dulcimer is essentially a modified zither.

In the early 20th century, settlement schools in Kentucky taught the fretted dulcimer to students, helping spread its popularity in the region.

* w < sub > 2 </ sub > — width at half of scale length ( if fretted, usually the 12th fret );

Some lap steel guitars can be converted between lap and fretted playing, or are modified versions of conventional guitars — the only difference is usually string height.

These were the first fretted solid body electric guitars — though they were preceded by the cast aluminum " frying pan ," a solid body electric lap steel guitar developed and eventually patented by George Beauchamp, and built by Adolph Rickenbacher.

Note that the frets on all Chinese lutes are high so that the fingers never touch the actual body — distinctively different from western fretted instruments.

Note that the frets on all Chinese lutes are high so that the fingers never touch the actual body — distinctively different from western fretted instruments.

A two-necked version of the Russian guitar was also popular ; these guitars usually had 11 or 12 strings — one neck with seven fretted strings, and another with four or five unfretted strings.

The frets on all Chinese lutes are high so that the fingers never touch the actual body — distinctively different from western fretted instruments.

Before the development of the electric guitar and the use of synthetic materials, a guitar was defined as being an instrument having " a long, fretted neck, flat wooden soundboard, ribs, and a flat back, most often with incurved sides ".

While tab is most often associated with fretted stringed instruments such as the guitar, tab is also used with other instruments such as the organ and harmonica.

Its most noticeable feature is what appears to be its extreme discontinuity, often from note to note: there may be enormous intervals between consecutive notes, and rather than aspiring to the consistency of timbre typical of most guitar-playing, Bailey interrupts it as much as possible: four consecutive notes, for instance, may be played on an open string, a fretted string, via harmonics, and using a nonstandard technique such as scraping the string with the pick or plucking below the bridge.

The identically tuned melody strings are often fretted in unison or so to create a major third.

The is a Japanese short-necked fretted lute, often used in narrative storytelling.

Elaborate inlay is found most often on fretted instruments.

Such instruments are referred to as unfretted whereas instruments using the same strings for several notes are called fretted.

This additional length is called compensation, which flattens all notes a bit to compensate for the sharping of all fretted notes caused by stretching the string during fretting.

The origin of Bouzouki as a descendant of ancient Greek and eastern instruments, locates in ancient Greece, where there had been an instrument known as the pandura or pandourion, also called the " trichordo " because it had three strings ; it was the first fretted instrument known, forerunner of the various families of lutes worldwide.

A wide range of voice-like timbres can be produced, depending on the shape of the instrument, the type of wood, where it is bowed, and where along its length it is stopped with a separate block of wood ( fretted on one side ) called the " dax ".

* In 1924, at Apollo Street, currently called Mumbai Samachar Marg, Mumbai, a magnificent stone structure with fretted windows, was constructed to house a branch of the Imperial Bank of India.

It is a ten string fretted instrument, sometimes called a mandoluth or mandol.

The frets on early mountain dulcimers were usually simple wire staples spanning only half-way across the fingerboard, meaning only the melody string course could be fretted.

This comes into play whenever a certain string has to sound two notes in the shape due to the natural limits of a fretted string instrument.

In the 1930s, musician and inventor Paul Tutmarc from Seattle, Washington, developed the first electric string bass in its modern form, a fretted instrument designed to be held and played horizontally.

Along with the Precision Bass ( so named because its fretted neck allowed bassists to play with ' precision '), Fender introduced a bass amplifier, the Fender Bassman ; a 45-watt amplifier with four 10 " speakers ( although initially with one 15 " speaker ).

In 2008, Fender introduced the fretted and fretless Steve Bailey signature models, its first six-string Jazz Basses to feature a 9. 5 ” to 14 ” compound-radius ebony fingerboard.

The multi-strung, expensive in manufacture, stringing, maintenance and technically-difficult fretted torban was considered an instrument of Ukrainian gentry, although most of its practitioners were Ukrainians and Jews of low birth, with a few aristocratic exceptions ( e. g. Ivan Mazepa, Andrei Razumovsky, Padura, Rzewucki ), a few virtuoso players are known by their reputation, such as Andrey Sychra ( from Lithuania ), and the Widort family, originally from Austria, but active in Ukraine since late 18th century.

Despite assurances from both Riley and Gillespie, the city of Albany and then-Governor Mario Cuomo openly fretted that the merger would be bad for the state capital since Key and its subsidiaries owned or leased more than 10 percent of Albany's commercial office space.

In Germany in the second half of the 17th century, diatonic single-row harps were fitted with manually turned hooks which fretted individual strings to raise their pitch by a half step.

The viol ( also known as the viola da gamba ) is any one of a family of bowed, fretted and stringed musical instruments developed in the mid-late 15th century and used primarily in the Renaissance and Baroque periods.

To date there have been no attempts to reconstruct earlier fretted kobza of the 18th century.

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The 1935 sales catalog for Tutmarc's electronic musical instrument company, Audiovox, featured his " Model 736 Bass Fiddle ", a four-stringed, solid-bodied, fretted electric bass instrument with a 30½-inch scale length.

Disadvantages include a smaller volume, even though many or most unfretted instruments tend to be significantly larger than fretted instruments ; and many more strings to keep in tune.

The sound and tone of the plucked upright bass is distinct from that of the fretted bass guitar.

Another family of instruments which contributed to the development of the modern fiddle are the viols, which are held between the legs and played vertically, and have fretted fingerboards.

The bending stress on the neck is considerable, particularly when heavier gauge strings are used ( see Tuning ), and the ability of the neck to resist bending ( see Truss rod ) is important to the guitar's ability to hold a constant pitch during tuning or when strings are fretted.

Prescriptive attempts to distinguish the glissando from the portamento by limiting the former to the filling in of discrete intermediate pitches on instruments like the piano, harp, and fretted stringed instruments have run up against established usage of instruments like the trombone and timpani.

In the 1790s he fretted over an aging George Washington being too much influenced by close advisers such as Alexander Hamilton, who Monroe thought too close to Britain.

Lute can refer generally to any plucked string instrument with a neck ( either fretted or unfretted ) and a deep round back, or more specifically to an instrument from the family of European lutes.

A mandolin typically has a hollow wooden body with a tailpiece that holds one end of the strings, a floating bridge, a neck with a flat ( or slight radius ) fretted fingerboard, a nut, and mechanical tuning machines to accommodate metal strings.

The usual limitation in fretted guitar playing of twelve pitches per octave does not apply.

In open tuning the strings are tuned to sound a chord when not fretted ; sliding the bottleneck up and down the guitar neck gives that chord in various keys.

Viols are fretted in a manner similar to early guitars or lutes, by means of movable wrapped-around and tied-on gut frets.

" Capra fretted that the film was released to indifferent reviews and initially only did so-so business.

Their journey by sea took them via Jamaica, the Panama Canal and the Pacific ; Elizabeth fretted constantly over her baby back in Britain, but their journey was a public relations success.

" Capra fretted that the film was released to indifferent reviews and initially only did so-so business.

His love of language influenced many of his comedy routines-for example one otherwise fairly routine joke began with the line " I was vouchsafed this vision by a pockmarked Lascar in the arms of a frump in a Huddersfield bordello ..." He was also a master of painting a beautiful word picture and then letting the audience down with a bump: " The other day I was gazing up at the night sky, a purple vault fretted with a myriad points of light twinkling in wondrous formation, while shooting stars streaked across the heavens, and I thought: I really must repair the roof on this toilet.