List of string instruments
This is a list of string instruments categorized according to the technique used to produce sound, followed by a list of string instruments grouped by country or region of origin.
Bowed instruments
Plucked instruments
Valiha (Madagascar)
Struck instruments
Instruments played in another way
Traditional string instruments by country
- Abyssinia (Eritrea & Ethiopia)
- North America:
- Benelux:
- Brazil:
- Bulgaria:
- Burundi:
- Inanga (also Burundian zither)
- China:
- Guqin (7-string zither)
- Guzheng (21-string zither)
- Huqin (family of bowed lutes)
- Erhu (2-string bowed lute)
- Gaohu (2-string bowed lute, high pitched)
- Pipa (4-string pear-shaped lute)
- Sanxian (3-string fretless lute)
- Yángqín (hammered dulcimer)
- Zhu
- Congo:
- Croatia:
- Estonia:
- Finland:
- France:
- Germany:
- Greece:
- Hungary:
- Iceland:
- India:
- Iran:
- Italy:
- Japan:
- Korea:
- Latvia:
- Lithuania:
- Malawi:
- Norway:
- Philippines:
- Portugal
- Puerto Rico:
- Rwanda:
- Russia:
- Slovenia:
- Spain:
- Java:
- Sweden:
- Tanzania:
- Ukraine:
- Venezuela:
- Vietnam: