National instruments in the usa

National instruments in the USA

Avtoera — stringed musical instrument. It has chord bars with dampers, which when pressed jam all the strings that are not included in the desired chord. Although the tool is called autoart, actually it's not a harp, chord zither .

Autoalpha

Kazoo — an American folk musical instrument used in the music of the skiffle style . Kazoo is a small metal, plastic or wooden cylinder, tapering to the end. In the middle of the cylinder, a metal tube with a membrane of tissue paper is inserted from the top. To perform music on kazoo, you need to sing in it, while the paper membrane changes the voice significantly.

Kazoo

Banjo

Banjo is a stringed musical instrument, a kind of guitar with a resonator (an extended part of the instrument covered with skin like a drum); 4-9 strings. Banjo is often associated with folk, rustic, Irish, traditional music, and the bluegrass genre. In the 19th century, banjo occupied a Central place in African-American traditional music. Banjo in tandem with violin became the basis of American ancient music.

The dulcimer is a stringed instrument related to citre. Most often it has 3-4 strings, the neck is divided into frets. Known from about 1900, appeared in the area of the Appalachian mountains in North America.Although the instrument originated in an area inhabited primarily by Irish and Scottish, it has no predecessors among Irish or Scottish folk instruments. However, few such tools have been known in continental Europe.The sound of the dulcimer is thin, soft, metallic. Sometimes the sound is described as ringing, cracking.

Dulcimer

Mandolin-stringed plucked musical instrument of small size, a kind of lute-lute-soprano, but with a shorter neck and a smaller number of strings. The strings hurt playing mostly with a pick and fingers and a bird's feather. On mandolin technique tremolo is used. Because the metal strings of the mandolin emit a short sound, then long extended notes are achieved by rapid repetition of the same sound.

Mandolin

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