The banjo is a four or five stringed instrument with a piece of plastic or animal skin stretched over a circular frame. Simpler forms of the instrument were fashioned by enslaved Africans in colonial America adapted from several African instruments of the same basic design.
In stringed musical instruments, sound is created by plucking, strumming, striking, or bowing across a string in order to make it vibrate. The sound frequency of a particular string can be increased by engaging that string with more force, causing faster vibrations.
National Instruments was created in 1976.
Standing Still - Roman Lob song - was created in 2011.
A 'membranophone' is an instrument with a membrane or skin, such as the drum. The sound is produced by the vibration of the membrane/skin. Membranophones are not stringed instruments. 'Membranophone' is the African term for instruments with membranes. 'Chordophones' is the African term for instruments with strings.
Stringed Instruments Museum was created in 1995.
Woodwinds Health Campus was created in 2000.
They consist of a reed and mouthpiece with the exception of the Flute. Notes are created by airflow passing through the mouthpiece and reed.
Instrument families in musicology are created and classified based on the sound production mechanism and physical characteristics of the instruments. They are grouped into categories such as strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion based on similarities in how they produce sound and their construction materials.
No Instruments was created in 2000.
The banjo is a four or five stringed instrument with a piece of plastic or animal skin stretched over a circular frame. Simpler forms of the instrument were fashioned by enslaved Africans in colonial America adapted from several African instruments of the same basic design.
In stringed musical instruments, sound is created by plucking, strumming, striking, or bowing across a string in order to make it vibrate. The sound frequency of a particular string can be increased by engaging that string with more force, causing faster vibrations.
Native Instruments was created in 1996.
Brookhaven Instruments was created in 1976.
Seiko Instruments was created in 1937.
Extech Instruments was created in 1971.
Oxford Instruments was created in 1959.