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Plucked string instrument facts for kids

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Plucked string instruments are instruments that are plucked either by fingerpicking or a pick. Examples of this are guitars, ukuleles, lutes, bass guitars, mandolins and banjos.

Guitar 1
The guitar, a common plucked string instrument

Images for kids

  • Guitar-and-lute

    Guitar and lute

  • Plucked instrument, French Psalter, 9th century

    This illustration in a French Psalter from the 9th century (c. 830) shows an unspecified plucked string instrument.

  • Music wall

    Stringed instruments hanging on a wall. Shown here are 4 Lookoeos, 2 mandolins, a banjo, a guitar, a violin, a Guraitar and a bass guitar.

  • 79-tone Kanun on the couch

    Qanún/kanun, origin from ancient Mesopotamia

See also

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