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chordophones

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Categorychordophones

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Sound devices that produce their sound by means of vibrating strings stretched between fixed points.

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Broader: <sound devices by acoustical characteristics>
Narrower: harp lutes
harps
Stroh violins
<zitherlike chordophones>
<chordophone components>
stringed instruments
gigues
harp zithers
<lutelike chordophones>
lyres
Related: <instrumentalists: stringed instruments>