#stringed_instrument  a musical instrument in which taut strings provide the source of sound
  supertype:  #musical_instrument__musicalinstrument  an instrument used to produce music
  part:  #bridge.support  #peg  #soundboard  #string
  subtype:  #banjo  a stringed instrument of the guitar family that has long neck and circular body
  subtype:  #bowed_stringed_instrument__string  stringed instruments that are played with a bow; "the strings played superlatively well"
     subtype:  #bass_fiddle__bass_viol__bull_fiddle__double_bass__contrabass__string_bass  largest and lowest member of the violin family
     subtype:  #cello  a large stringed instrument; seated player holds it upright while playing
     subtype:  #viol  any of a family of bowed stringed instruments that preceded the violin family
        subtype:  #viola_da_braccio  a member of the viol family with approximately the range of a viola
        subtype:  #viola_da_gamba__bass_viol  viol that is the bass member of the viol family with approximately the range of the cello
        subtype:  #viola_d'amore__violad'amore  viol that is the tenor of the viol family
     subtype:  #viola.bowed_stringed_instrument  a bowed stringed instrument slightly larger than a violin, tuned a fifth lower
     subtype:  #violin__fiddle  bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow
        subtype:  #Amati  a violin made by a member of the Amati family
        subtype:  #Guarnerius  a violin made by a member of the guarneri family
        subtype:  #Stradavarius__Strad  a violin made by Antonio Stradivari or a member of his family
  subtype:  #chordophone  a stringed instrument of the group including harps, lutes, lyres, and zithers
     subtype:  #balalaika  a stringed instrument that has triangular body and three strings
     subtype:  #harp  a chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers
        subtype:  #aeolian_harp__aeolianharp__aeolian_lyre__aeolianlyre__wind_harp  a harp having strings tuned in unison; they sound when wind passes over them
        subtype:  #lyre  a harp used by ancient Greeks for accompaniment
     subtype:  #lute  chordophone consisting of a plucked instrument having a pear-shaped body, a usually bent neck, and a fretted fingerboard
     subtype:  #mandolin  a stringed instrument related to the lute, usually played with a plectrum
        subtype:  #mandola  an early type of mandolin
  subtype:  #clavichord  an early stringed instrument like a piano but with more delicate sound
  subtype:  #clavier__Klavier  a stringed instrument that has a keyboard
     subtype:  #harpsichord  a clavier with strings that are plucked by plectra mounted on pivots
        subtype:  #spinet  early model harpsichord with only one string per note
        subtype:  #pair_of_virginals__virginal  a legless rectangular harpsichord; played (usually by women) in the 16th and 17th centuries
  subtype:  #dulcimer.stringed_instrument  a stringed instrument used in American folk music; an elliptical body and a fretted fingerboard and three strings
  subtype:  #guitar  a stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking
     subtype:  #acoustic_guitar  sound is not amplified by electrical means
     subtype:  #electric_guitar  a guitar whose sound is amplified by electrical means
     subtype:  #gittern  medieval musical instrument resembling a guitar
     subtype:  #Hawaiian_guitar__steel_guitar__steelguitar  guitar whose steel strings are twanged while being pressed with a movable steel bar for a glissando effect
     subtype:  #uke__ukulele  (Hawaiian) a small guitar having four strings
  subtype:  #koto  Japanese stringed instrument that resembles a zither; has a rectangular wooden sounding box and silk strings that are plucked with the fingers
  subtype:  #forte-piano__fortepiano__piano__pianoforte  a stringed instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds
     subtype:  #grand_piano__grandpiano__grand  a piano with the strings on a harp-shaped frame; usually supported by 3 legs
        subtype:  #baby_grand_piano__baby_grand__parlor_grand__parlor_grand_piano__parlour_grand__parlourgrand__parlour_grand_piano__parlourgrandpiano  a small grand piano
        subtype:  #concert_grand__concertgrand__concert_piano__concertpiano  a grand piano suitable for concert performances
     subtype:  #mechanical_piano__Pianola__player_piano  a mechanically operated piano that uses a roll of perforated paper to activate the keys
     subtype:  #upright_piano__uprightpiano__upright  a piano with a vertical sounding board
        subtype:  #spinet.upright_piano  small and compactly built upright piano
  subtype:  #psaltery  an ancient stringed instrument similar to the lyre or zither but having a trapezoidal sounding board under the strings
  subtype:  #samisen  Japanese stringed instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and a fretted fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox
  subtype:  #sitar  a stringed instrument of India; has a long neck and movable frets
  subtype:  #zither__cither__zithern  a musical stringed instrument with strings stretch over a flat sounding box; played with a plectrum and with fingers
     subtype:  #dulcimer  a trapezoidal zither whose metal strings are struck with light hammers

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