chordophone
Definitions of chordophone
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a stringed instrument of the group including harps, lutes, lyres, and zitherstypes:balalaïkaa stringed instrument that has a triangular body and three stringsharpea chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingersluthchordophone consisting of a plucked instrument having a pear-shaped body, a usually bent neck, and a fretted fingerboardmandolinea stringed instrument related to the lute, usually played with a plectrumharpe éoliennea harp having strings tuned in unison; they sound when wind passes over themlyrea harp used by ancient Greeks for accompanimenttype of:instrument à cordesa musical instrument in which taut strings provide the source of sound
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