"Ukelin" is one of the more common trade names of a type of stringed musical instrument marketed from the early 1920s until about 1965. Ukelins combine two sets of strings, one group of sixteen ...

In Florence around 1700, the Italian instrument maker Bartolomeo Cristofori made a breakthrough now credited with paving the way towards the modern piano: for plucked strings, he substituted a ...

Stringed instruments make noise from the vibrations ... The strings are triggered in a variety of ways – piano strings are hit with hammers, guitar strings are plucked, while violin strings ...

Let's do it. OK so this might be a piano but its actually also a string instrument. If we look inside you can see that there are stringsof different lengths and thicknesses. At this end the ...

History The piano is a keyboard instrument descended from early instruments like the clavichord and harpsichord, which used strings inside the instrument's body which were plucked or struck. But it's ...

According to its manufacturer, the F308 is the world's largest piano in production ... between the hammers and the strings. Developed in partnership with Galaxy Instruments, Claire's sample ...

while the shortest string sounds as the G flat three and a half octaves above middle C. In technical terms, the instrument’s range is C flat 1 to G flat 7 – a huge six-and-a-half octaves, which is ...