Four-string guitar
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Guitar family instruments with four strings
- Bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
- BraguinhaBraguinhaBraguinha can be:* one of the names of the cavaquinho, a string instrument of the guitar family;* the nickname of Carlos Alberto Ferreira Braga, a Brazilian songwriter....
- CakKroncongKroncong is the name of a ukulele-type instrument and an Indonesian musical style that typically makes use of the kroncong , the band or combo or ensemble consist of a flute, a violin, a melody guitar, a cello in pizzicato style, string bass also in...
used in Kroncong music - CavaquinhoCavaquinhoThe cavaquinho is a small string instrument of the European guitar family with four wire or gut strings. It is also called machimbo, machim, machete , manchete or marchete, braguinha or braguinho, or cavaco.The most common tuning is D-G-B-D ; other tunings include D-A-B-E...
- Celovic used in Tamburica orchestras
- Cuatro VenezolanoCuatro (Venezuela)The cuatro of Venezuela has four single nylon strings, tuned . It is similar in shape and tuning to the ukulele, but their character and playing technique are vastly different. It is tuned in a similar fashion to the traditional D tuning of the ukulele, but the A and B are an octave lower...
- Tenor guitarTenor guitar1932 Martin 0-18 T Sunburst Tenor Guitar|thumb|rightThe tenor guitar or four-string guitar is a slightly smaller, four-string relative of the steel-string acoustic guitar or electric guitar. The instrument was developed so that players of the four-string tenor banjo could double on the guitar...
- UkuleleUkuleleThe ukulele, ; from ; it is a subset of the guitar family of instruments, generally with four nylon or gut strings or four courses of strings....
Guitar family instruments with four courses of strings
- Brac and Bugaria used in Tamburica orchestras
- Some Chitarra BattentesChitarra battenteThe chitarra battente also known as "chitarra italiana" is a musical instrument, a chordophone of the lute family. At a casual glance, it is similar to the everyday classical guitar, but larger and typically strung with four steel strings...
- Some KabosysKabosyThe kabosy is a box-shaped wooden guitar commonly played in music of Madagascar. It has four to six strings and is commonly thought to be a direct descendant of the Arabic oud. The kabosy has staggered frets, many of which do not even cross the entire fretboard, and is generally tuned to an open...
- Tahitian ukuleleTahitian ukuleleThe Tahitian ukulele is a short-necked fretted lute with eight nylon strings in four doubled courses, native to Tahiti and played in other regions of Polynesia...
- TipleTipleTiple is the Spanish word for treble or soprano, is often applied to specific instruments, generally to refer to a small chordophone of the guitar family. A tiple player is called a tiplista.-Colombian tiple:...
- TrembuloTrembuloThe trembulo is an instrument similar to a tiple, but smaller. It is thought to have been first developed by Portuguese luthiers around 1600. It seems likely to have developed from the 4-course renaissance guitar....