What are the western musical instruments

1, the piano

The piano (Italian: pianoforte) is a keyboard instrument in Western classical music, the "king of musical instruments" is known. By 88 keys (52 white keys, 36 black keys) and metal strings soundboard composition. The Italian Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655-1731) invented the piano in 1709.

2, Harp

The harp (English: Harp, Italian: Arpa, German: Harfe, Persian: ), is a large plucked string instrument. Harp is one of the world's oldest plucked string instruments, originated in ancient Persia (Iran), according to Egyptian ancient map records, this instrument appeared in the third and fourth millennia BC. It was shaped like a bow with strings.

3, guitar

Guitar (Italian: Chitarra), also translated as guitar or hexachord. It is a plucked instrument, usually with six strings, similar in shape to a fiddle. The guitar is often regarded as the main instrument in popular music, rock music, blues, folk songs, and flamenco.

4, violin

The violin is a stringed instrument. The total **** has four strings. The sound is made by friction between the strings and the bow. The violin body (*** sound box) is about 35.5 centimeters long and consists of a curved top, back and sides glued together.

5, cello

Cello, for the Western musical instruments, is an essential tenor or bass string instrument in the orchestra, belonging to the violin family of instruments in the lower middle musical instruments. Cello tone thick and rich, with a cheerful character, good at playing lyrical melody, expressing deep and complex feelings, but also with the bass violin *** with the responsibility of the bass part of the harmony, there is a "music of the noblewoman," the name.

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