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> Stringed instruments like guitars guitar is a percussion instrument :D
by KPGv2 13d ago
> Stringed instruments like guitars
guitar is a percussion instrument :D
- wrs 13d agoAnd piano is a stringed instrument, oops! How about “fretted instrument”?
- Lio 12d agoFretless Bass would like a word… :P
- wrs 11d agoAaargh! OK, you made me look it up. :) The word is "chordophone" (an instrument that makes sound from vibrating strings). A "fretted" instrument is a chordphone whose pitches are fixed by frets. But I can't find a word for the class I'm talking about, "a chordophone with a fingerboard", as opposed to a piano, which is a chordophone with one string per pitch (and is also a percussion instrument!).