How the chordophone makes its sound
In the Hornbostel–Sachs system, which classifies instruments by how they produce sound, the chordophone belongs to the chordophones (string instruments): sound comes from vibrating strings, amplified by a resonating body.
Players shape its sound through technique and materials; the resonating body filters the raw vibration, boosting some harmonics and damping others.
From Wikipedia
In musical instrument classification, string instruments, or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer strums, plucks, strikes or sounds the strings in varying manners.
Musicians play some string instruments, like guitars, by plucking the strings with their fingers or a plectrum (pick), and others by hitting the strings with a light wooden hammer or by rubbing the strings with a bow, like violins. In some keyboard instruments, such as the harpsichord, the musician presses a key that plucks the string. Other musical instruments generate sound by striking the string.
Other chordophones
Frequently asked questions
What does a chordophone sound like?
As one of the chordophones, its sound comes from the way sound comes from vibrating strings, amplified by a resonating body.
What type of instrument is the chordophone?
It is classified as chordophones (string instruments) (Hornbostel–Sachs 3).
Sources & credits
- Wikidata Q1051772 – CC0
- Wikipedia: String instrument – CC BY-SA 4.0
- Image by Cornelis Saftleven – Public domain