string band

Strings can play in string orchestras. Many orchestras include only string instruments. Usually there are many players in a string orchestra, and several people playing the same part.

The fiddle, 5-string banjo, acoustic guitar, mandolin, upright bass/cello and lap dulcimer are frequently played. They may be joined by spoons, washboards, jugs, harmonica, jaw harp, piano, accordion and even earlier gourd and minstrel versions of the banjo.

The Hungarian string band tradition is one of the country's defining ensembles and one of the most common representatives of folk music culture. The basic fiddle-viola-bass line-up takes many forms across regions and eras and can be expanded to include additional string players or reed instruments.

There are eighteen String Band organizations in existence today. Every year, each String Band selects an annual theme, and debuts their new music and costumes in the Philadelphia New Year's Day parade.

The most common question asked by parents and students alike is the difference between “Band” and “Orchestra.” Both are “performance-based large group music classes,” but there are differences. Band classes are made up of “Wind” and “Percussion” instruments whereas Orchestra classes are made up of “String” instruments.

stringed instrument, any musical instrument that produces sound by the vibration of stretched strings, which may be made of vegetable fibre, metal, animal gut, silk, or artificial materials such as plastic or nylon.

(a piece of) strong, thin rope made by twisting very thin threads together, used for fastening and tying things: a package tied with string.

Classification. In musicology, string instruments are known as chordophones. It is one of the five main divisions of instruments in the Hornbostel–Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification.

A string is a data type used in programming, that is used to represent text rather than numbers. A string is a sequence of characters and can contain letters, numbers, symbols and even spaces. It must be enclosed in quotation marks for it to be recognized as a string.

A string trio is a group of three string instruments or a piece written for such a group. From at least the 19th century on, the term "string trio" with otherwise unspecified instrumentation normally refers to the combination violin, viola and cello.

A band is a small group of musicians who play popular music such as jazz, rock, or pop. He was a drummer in a rock band. Local bands provide music for dancing. Synonyms: ensemble, group, orchestra, combo More Synonyms of band.

Around 300 years ago composers began to write music for the orchestra that excluded the string instrument family. This gave birth to what became known as the “wind band.” Over the centuries other wind instruments have been added, including some strictly for the marching band.