Spike lutes are string instruments in which the strings run in a plane parallel to the sound table the string bearer being a plain handle (handle lutes) passing diametrically through the resonator. In the Hornbostel-Sachs system, this class of instrument is designated as 321.31.

These instruments are also known as spike lutes. These instruments are made of a resonator and string bearer that are physically united, with strings in parallel to the sound table and a handle which is also the string bearer and which passes diametrically through the resonator.

The sanxian (Chinese: 三弦, literally "three strings") is a three-stringed traditional Chinese lute. It has a long fretless fingerboard, and the body is traditionally made from snake skin stretched over a rounded rectangular resonator.

spike lute (plural spike lutes) Any of various musical instruments comprising a resonator and string bearer that are physically united, with strings parallel to the sound table and a handle which is also the string bearer and which passes diametrically through the resonator. Hyponyms: spike bowl lute, spike box lute, spike tube lute

Spike lutes are string instruments in which the strings run in a plane parallel to the sound table (lutes) the string bearer being a plain handle (handle lutes) passing diametrically through the resonator. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. The following 3 files are in this category, out of 3 total.

A plucked chordophone. Its neck passes diametrically through the resonator, protruding as a spike or stub at the bottom; the strings are attached to the spike. The resonator may comprise ...

2021年3月16日 · The akonting or ekonting (French transliteration) is a folk spike-lute found in Senegal, Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau in West Africa. It has a skin-headed large gourd body that supports a bridge for the strings; a long bamboo papyrus broomstick that pierces through the gourd, and two long melody strings, and one short drone string that are tunable ...

2011年5月5日 · The Creole Bania (above), currently on display in the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde (National Museum of Ethnology; Leiden, the Netherlands), is considered to be the oldest extant example of the early gourd banjo (c. 1620 – 1860), the Afro-Creole/African American plucked spike lute that was the original type of banjo. [1]

2021年1月5日 · Chordophone – Half-spiked Lute ‘Molo’ is a general name given to the lutes by the Hausa people of Niger and northern Nigeria and the Songhay people of Niger. These lutes were used for a religious ceremony, the ‘Bori spirit possession cult.’ Today it is also used for entertainment and to accompany ‘praise singing.’

These instruments are also known as semi-spike lutes, tanged lutes and internal spike lutes. These instruments are made of a resonator and string bearer that are physically united, with strings in parallel to the sound table and a handle which is also the string bearer and which passes through the resonator but does not pierce its tail end.