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  2. Cigar box guitar - Wikipedia

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    Cigar box guitar. The cigar box guitar is a simple chordophone that uses an empty cigar box as a resonator. The earliest had one or two strings; modern models typically have three or more. Generally, the strings are connected to the end of a broomstick or a 1×2 inch wood slat and to the cigar box resonator.

  3. List of chords - Wikipedia

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    Altered chord; Approach chord; Chord names and symbols (popular music) Chromatic mediant; Common chord (music) Diatonic function; Eleventh chord; Extended chord; Jazz chord; Lead sheet; List of musical intervals; List of pitch intervals; List of musical scales and modes; List of set classes; Ninth chord; Open chord; Passing chord; Primary triad ...

  4. Music Box Dancer - Wikipedia

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    "Music Box Dancer" is an instrumental piece by Canadian musician Frank Mills that was an international hit in the late 1970s. It features an arpeggiated piano theme in C-sharp major (enharmonic to D-flat major ) designed to resemble a music box , accompanied by other instruments playing a counterpoint melody as well as a wordless chorus.

  5. Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain - Wikipedia

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    The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain ( UOGB) is a British musical ensemble founded in 1985 by George Hinchliffe and Kitty Lux. The orchestra features ukuleles of various sizes and registers from soprano to bass. The UOGB is best known for performing musically faithful but often tongue-in-cheek covers of popular songs and musical pieces from a ...

  6. Chapman Stick - Wikipedia

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    Touch guitar. Megatar. A street musician in Japan playing a Chapman Stick in 2023. The Chapman Stick is an electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman in the early 1970s. A member of the guitar family, the Chapman Stick usually has ten or twelve individually tuned strings and is used to play bass lines, melody lines, chords, or textures.

  7. List of national instruments (music) - Wikipedia

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    chords on an accordion ⓘ 412.132 South Africa: lesiba rattle stick The lesiba, and gora or goura, are members of a class of "unbraced mouth-resonated bow[s]" with a flattened quill attached to a long string, stretched over a hard stick, acting as the main source of vibration 423.121.12 — Spain: guitar

  8. Music box - Wikipedia

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    A music box ( American English) or musical box ( British English) is an automatic musical instrument in a box that produces musical notes by using a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc to pluck the tuned teeth (or lamellae) of a steel comb.

  9. String instrument - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. In musical instrument classification, string instruments or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer plays or sounds the strings in some manner. Musicians play some string instruments, like guitars, by plucking the strings with their fingers or a plectrum (pick), and others by ...