The White Hat Guide to Plucked Strings

Guitar
Harp
Mandolin

See also - lute

The White Hat Plucked Strings Quiz

[This little quiz first comes from the White Hat Melbourne Newsletter No.390 of February 2010 which had a ukulele theme]

1. Many plucked stringed instruments have frets (little bars) on the fingerboard. Name a plucked string instrument that doesn’t.
2. What are the pedals for on a concert harp?
3. What plucked string instrument in an Australian bush band has only one string?
4. What is the most common plucked string instrument you are likely to hear in bluegrass music?
5. What plucked string instrument is usually tuned to the same notes as the violin?
6. It is possible for a violinist to pluck a string so hard that it ‘snaps’ against the fingerboard. What is this technique called? 7. Name a famous make of electric guitar.
7.  A rock band typically contains a lead guitar, rhythm guitar and bass guitar. What were their equivalents in an Elizabethan dance band?
8. Flamenco guitar often uses fast repeated playing of the one note. What is this technique called?
9. Name a famous jazz guitarist who had a disability.

 

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