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Banjo-mandolin
The mandolin-banjo is a hybrid instrument, combining a banjo body with the neck and tuning of a mandolin. It is a soprano banjo. It has been independently invented in more than one country, variously being called mandolin-banjo, banjo-mandolin, banjolin and banjourine in English-speaking countries, banjoline and bandoline in France, and the Cümbüş in Turkey. The instrument has the same scale length as a mandolin (about 14 inches); with 4 courses of strings tuned identically to the violin and mandolin (low to high: GDAE). The movable bridge stands on a resonant banjo-like head typically 10 inches in diameter and currently usually made of plastic. Originally heads were made of skin and varied in diameter to as small as five inches. Larger heads were favored, however, as they were louder, and thus more audible in band settings. Origins Inventors were experimenting to create amplified instruments in the days before electric amplification. The first patent for a mandolin-banjo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banjocello
There are multiple instruments referred to as a bass banjo. The first to enter real production was the five-string cello banjo, tuned one octave below a five-string banjo. This was followed by a four-string cello banjo, tuned CGDA in the same range as a cello or mandocello, and modified upright bass versions tuned EADG. More recently, true bass banjos, tuned EADG and played in conventional horizontal fashion have been introduced. Five-string cello banjo The five-string cello banjo was originally a gut-stringed instrument with a deep diameter rim, marketed by S.S. Stewart in 1889. Advertising copy used the terms "bass banjo" and "cello banjo" to refer to the same instrument. Other banjo makers manufactured similar instruments, including A.C. Fairbanks, with a diameter head and a scale length and A.A. Farland, with head and a scale. Gold Tone is the only contemporary manufacturer. Four-string cello banjo In 1919, Gibson began manufacturing a 4-string cello banjo, known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lange (musical Instruments)
Lange may refer to: People *Lange (surname), a German surname *David Lange (1942–2005), 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand *Lange (musician) (born 1974), British DJ *Lange (Brazilian footballer) (born 1966), Brazilian footballer Companies * Lange (ski boots), a producer of ski boots used in alpine (downhill) skiing * Lange Aviation, manufacturer of gliders * Lange Textbooks, an imprint of McGraw-Hill Education * A. Lange & Söhne, watchmakers Places * Lange (crater), a crater on Mercury * Lange Island, Bastian Islands * Lange Peak, Antarctica * Lange, Estonia, village in Haaslava Parish, Tartu County, Estonia * Lange, Western Australia * Langhe, a region in Piedmont, Italy * Lange, a tributary of the Oker in Germany * ''Lange Eylant'', the Dutch term for Long Island See also *Lang (other) *Laing (other) Laing may refer to: People *Laing (surname), a Scottish surname Companies *Arriva UK Trains, a British transport company formerly known as Laing Rail *J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vega Company
The Vega Company was a musical instrument manufacturer that started operations in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1881. The company began under Swedish-born Julius Nelson, his brother Carl, and a group of associates that included John Pahn and John Swenson. The founders had previously worked for a guitar shop run by Pehr Anderberg that made instruments for John C. Haynes, another Boston musical instrument company. Nelson had served as foreman of guitar and mandolin manufacturing at Anderberg's shop. Subsequently, Julius and Carl Nelson bought out the other founding associates and established the Vega company. In 1904, Vega acquired the instrument manufacturing firm (primarily building banjos) previously operated by A. C. Fairbanks. Vega also acquired the plectrum instrument division of Boston's Thompson & Odell Company, which made bowl-back mandolins, guitars, and several types of banjos. The emphasis remained true to Vega's origins, however, with about 60% of business centered on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weymann & Son
Weymann may refer to: ;People *Charles Terres Weymann (1889–1976), Haitian-born early aeroplane racing pilot and businessman *Ray Weymann, retired astronomer and astrophysicist, associated with the Carnegie Institution of Washington ;Aircraft *Weymann Fabric Bodies, patented design system for fuselages for aircraft and superlight coachwork for motor vehicles *Weymann W-1, French single seat biplane fighter aircraft, built during World War I *Weymann 66, French multipurpose biplane built for colonial work in the 1930s *Weymann W-100, French three seat observation aircraft with a position for the observer within its partially glazed fuselage *Weymann-Lepère WEL-80, French two seat reconnaissance aircraft built to compete for a 1928 government contract ;Other *Metro Cammell Weymann, once a major contributor in transportation manufacturing in the UK and Europe *Weymann guitars, one of Americas oldest musical instrument manufacturers See also *Weyman Weyman is both a surname and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gibson Guitar Corporation
Gibson, Inc. (formerly Gibson Guitar Corporation and Gibson Brands Inc.) is an American manufacturer of Guitar manufacturing, guitars, other musical instruments, and professional audio equipment from Kalamazoo, Michigan, and now based in Nashville, Tennessee. Orville Gibson started making instruments in 1894 and founded the company in 1902 as the Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Mfg. Co. Ltd. in Kalamazoo, Michigan, to make mandolin-family instruments. Gibson invented archtop guitars by constructing the same type of carved, arched tops used on violins. By the 1930s, the company was also making flattop acoustic guitars, as well as one of the first commercially available semi-acoustic guitar, hollow-body electric guitars, used and popularized by Charlie Christian. In 1944, Gibson was bought by Chicago Musical Instruments (CMI), which was acquired in 1969 by Panama-based conglomerate Ecuadorian Company Limited (ECL), that changed its name in the same year to Norlin Corporation. Gibson was ow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bow (music)
In music, a bow () is a tensioned stick which has hair (usually horse-tail hair) coated in rosin (to facilitate friction) affixed to it. It is moved across some part (generally some type of strings) of a musical instrument to cause vibration, which the instrument emits as sound. The vast majority of bows are used with string instruments, such as the violin, viola, cello, and bass, although some bows are used with musical saws and other bowed idiophones. Materials and manufacture A bow consists of a specially shaped stick with other material forming a ribbon stretched between its ends, which is used to stroke the string and create sound. Different musical cultures have adopted various designs for the bow. For instance, in some bows a single cord is stretched between the ends of the stick. In the Western tradition of bow making—bows for the instruments of the violin and viol families—a hank of horsehair is normally employed. The manufacture of bows is considered a demandi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zither
Zither (; , from the Greek ''cithara'') is a class of stringed instruments. The modern instrument has many strings stretched across a thin, flat body. Zithers are typically played by strumming or plucking the strings with the fingers or a plectrum. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, the term refers to a larger family of similarly shaped instruments that also includes the hammered dulcimer family and piano and a few rare bowed instruments like the bowed psaltery, bowed dulcimer, and streichmelodion. Like an acoustic guitar or lute, a zither's body serves as a resonating chamber ( sound box), but, unlike guitars and lutes, a zither lacks a distinctly separate neck assembly. The number of strings varies, from one to more than fifty. In modern usage the term "zither" usually refers to three specific instruments: the concert zither (), its variant the Alpine zither (each of which uses a fretted fingerboard), and the chord zither (more recently described as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pizzicato
Pizzicato (, ; translated as 'pinched', and sometimes roughly as 'plucked') is a playing technique that involves plucking the strings of a string instrument. The exact technique varies somewhat depending on the type of instrument: * On bowed string instruments it is a method of playing by plucking the strings with the fingers, rather than using the bow. This produces a very different sound from bowing, short and percussive rather than sustained. * On keyboard string instruments, such as the piano, pizzicato may be employed (although rarely seen in traditional repertoire, this technique has been normalized in contemporary music, with ample examples by George Crumb, Tōru Takemitsu, Helmut Lachenmann, and others) as one of the variety of techniques involving direct manipulation of the strings known collectively as " string piano". * On the guitar, it is a muted form of plucking, which bears an audible resemblance to pizzicato on a bowed string instrument with its relatively ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
