All these instruments are very sensitive and capable of producing different timbres and nuances. These instruments’ strings are on a resonance box.

These instruments are the ones that produce vibration when they are rubbed with an arch, which is a rod made of wood, flexible and little curved. Although some scholars believe that the first instruments that can be classified as true violins were created in the early 1480s, most agree that the earliest version of the modern violin appeared in the mid-16th century. There, it had an influence on the design and construction of the predecessor of the modern violin family: the Byzantine lyre. In the Middle East, the Ravanahatha became the rebab, a two-stringed violin brought by Byzantium through trade routes. The first arched accordions probably developed in Central Asia and they were precursors of a popular Indian instrument known as the Ravanahatha. The oldest surviving string instruments to date are the Ur lyres and the plucked accordions, of which there are fragments dating back 4,500 years. Stringed instruments are known as chordophones, a term that comes from the Greek words khorde, meaning string, and phonos, meaning sound or voice.

It is said that they originated from the arch, used to shoot arrows in the Paleolithic, was used for hunting, war and to make different sounds. Sounds are obtained by rubbing, pulsing or percussion.Strings are in a tense form from one point of the instrument to another.The sound is produced through string vibration amplified by the wooden resonance box.It allows to obtain artificial harmonies.

They produce simple notes or specific sounds.Characteristics of the string instruments