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The String Studio synthesizer swaps the traditional oscillator, filter, and envelope pattern for real-life string instrument components. At the core of String Studio lies a new cutting edge string model interacting with picks, bows, hammers, fingers, frets, dampers, and soundboards. Through this direct approach, String Studio delivers stunning guitars, basses, harps, clavinets, bowed instruments, percussions as well as rich and animated tones that blend the warmth, naturalness, and density of real-life with unique and innovative timbres from yet unheard instruments
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The name lute refers both to any plucked string instrument with a fretted neck and a deep round back and specifically to an instrument from the family of European lutes. Lute and oud both descend from a common ancestor, with diverging evolutionary paths. The words 'lute' and 'oud' may have derived from Arabic al‘ud, "the wood", though recent research by Eckhard Neubauer suggests that ‘ud may simply be an Arabized version of the Persian name rud, which meant string, stringed instrument, or lute. Gianfranco Lotti suggests that the "wood" appellation originally carried derogatory connotations, because of proscriptions of all instrumental music in early Islam. The player of a lute is called a lutenist, lutanist or lutist, and a maker of lutes (or any string instrument) is called a luthier.
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Sponsored by the National String Workshop, these intensive four-day clinics provide hands-on experiences for those interested in learning more about string instrument repair. Participants work on their own projects under the guidance of skilled repair specialists. Three tracks: Basic/Beginning Repair, Intermediate Repair (both for violin, viola, cello, bass), and Fretted Instrument Repair.
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String musical instruments include a wide variety of instruments, some originating thousands of years ago. The pitch of string instruments depends not only on the string length but ... on its thickness, weight and tension. The vibration of strings against the soundboard produces sound. String instruments come in a variety of shapes and sizes, from the Oud to the Sitar to the Harp.
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Sponsored by the National String Workshop, the String Repair Clinics have provided hands-on experiences for those interested in learning more about string instrument repair for thirty years. In its 31st year, the Clinics have expanded to include repair of fretted instruments in addition to traditional orchestral string instruments, as well as a clinic especially addressing bow repair.
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The Indian Santoor is the oldest known string instrument of India. While it had originally been part of the classical music in Persia, the santoor was a highland folk instrument in India. The Indian Santoor is a flat shaped instrument in the form of a trapezoid. Two light wooden hammers are included to play along the metal strings providing an exotic sound.
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