String instruments

The rawap () is a variant of the rubab used in traditional Uyghur music of Xinjiang, China.

thumb|200px|Line drawing labeled Asor Assyrien (Assyria|Assyrian Asor). This is a representation of a horizontal [[angular harp. From the 1884 book Histoire de la musique by Henri Marie Lavoix (1846–1897).]]

300px|thumb|right|A Maguindanao people|Maguindanao kutiyapi bearing [[okir motifs]]

The Chagane () is an Azerbaijani four-stringed bowed musical instrument. Its range is F#2 to F#5.

The akonting (, or ekonting in French transliteration) is the folk lute of the Jola people, found in Senegal, Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau in West Africa. It is a string instrument with a skin-headed gourd body, two long melody strings, and one short drone string, akin to the short fifth "thumb string" on the five-string banjo.

sarangi from Nepal

musical instrument

thumb|'Lady playing swarabat'. Painting by Raja Ravi Varma. thumb|Instrument similar to swarabat in relief at Amaravati Stupa in southern India, 2nd century CE. The Swarabat, Swarbat or Swaragat is a rare plucked string instrument of the classical Carnatic music genre of South India. It belongs to the chordophone, lute family of musical instruments, and is closely related to the veena and yazh instruments of the ancient South Asian orchestral ensemble.

thumb|Acho Namgyal playing [[piwang in 1937]] The chiwang (Dzongkha: སྤྱི་དབང་; Wylie: spyi-dbang) is a type of fiddle played in Bhutan. The chiwang, the lingm (flute), and the dramyen (lute) comprise the basic instrumental inventory for traditional Bhutanese folk music.

The kumuz () or agach-kumuz () is a stringed instrument used by the Kumyks of Dagestan, in the Russian Caucasus. It has three strings and is fretted. Scholars have noticed the similarity in name to the Kyrgyz komuz, but note the kumuz is perhaps more closely related to the other lutes of the Caucasus.

stringed musical instrument