This is a list of instruments sorted according to the Hornbostel-Sachs number system, covering those instruments that are classified under 321.321 under that system. These instruments may be known as necked bowl lutes.
These instruments may be classified with a suffix, based on how the strings are caused to vibrate.
Instrument | Tradition | Hornbostel–Sachs classification | Description |
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angélique | French classical music | 321.321 | Pear-shaped, plucked, with 15-17 strings |
archlute Italian arciliuto, Erzlaute, Архилютня | Western classical music | 321.321 | Plucked |
baglamas | Greece | 321.321 | Pear-shaped, long-necked |
bağlama | Middle East and Central Asia | 321.321 | |
balalaika [1] | Russia | 321.321 | Triangle-shaped lute-type instrument |
bandora | 321.321 | ||
bandura [2] | Ukraine | 321.321 | Diatonic, unfretted lute-like string instrument, traditionally carved from a single block of wood |
banduria [3] | Philippines | 321.321 | Pear-shaped mandolin-like instrument, part of the rondalla tradition of ensemble playing of plucked instruments including bandurias, octavinas, laúds, guitars, and basses. |
banhu | China | 321.321 | Two-stringed, bowed instrument |
banzouki | 321.321 | ||
barbat | Persian | 321.321 | |
biwa | Japan | 321.321 | Short-necked, fretted |
bouzouki [4] | Greece, Modern | 321.321 | String instrument with a pear-shaped body and a long neck, played with plectrum |
buzuq | Middle Eastern | 321.321 | Long-necked, fretted |
charango [5] charanga | Bolivia | 321.321-6 | Fretted, hollow-bodied bowl lute, usually with four or five doubled strings, with as many as eleven tunings, traditionally made from an armadillo shell |
charango [6] charanga, chillador | Peru | 321.321-6 | Guitar-like instrument, most commonly with ten strings in two courses and made from an armadillo back |
chillador | 321.321 | Small fretted instrument | |
chitarra Italiana | Renaissance Italy | 321.322 | Plucked |
çifteli çiftelia, qifteli or qyfteli | Albania | 321.321-5 | Fretted pear-shaped bowl lute with a neck, played by plucking. |
cimboa | Cape Verde | 321.322 | Bowed |
cittern | 321.322 | ||
dambura | Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan | 321.321 | Wooden plucked instrument |
Đàn gáo | Vietnam | 321.321 | Bowed two-stringed instrument |
Đàn tỳ bà | Vietnam | 321.321 | Plucked four-stringed instrument |
dangubica | Croatia | 321.321 | |
dilruba | India | 321.321 | |
dombra [7] [8] | Central Asia | 321.321-6 | Fretted, long-necked lute with a round body, played by plucking with a plectrum |
domra | Russia | 321.321 | |
dotara | Bangladesh | 321.321 | |
dramyin [9] dranyen, dramnyen | Bhutan | 321.321 | Seven-stringed lute, fretless, long-necked and double-waisted with rosette-shaped sound hole |
dutar | Central Asia | 321.321 | Long-necked, two-stringed instrument |
erhu | China | 321.321 | Two-stringed, bowed instrument |
erxian | China, especially Cantonese | 321.321 | Two-stringed, bowed instrument |
esraj | India | 321.321 | |
gadulka | Bulgaria | 321.321 | |
gambus | Arab | 321.321 | |
gittern guitarra, guiterne or guiterre, Italy, quintern | Europe | 321.321 | stringed instrument, typical four courses/8 strings, more courses possible, also possible to string with 4-6 single strings |
gusle [10] [11] gusla | Southeastern Europe | 321.321-71 | Stringed instrument, round, typically with one string bound at the top of the neck with a tuning peg |
huluhu | China | 321.321 | Two-stringed, bowed instrument |
igil | Tuva | 321.321 | |
jing erhu | China | 321.321 | |
kamancheh | Persian | 321.321 | |
kobyz | Kazakhstan | 321.321 | |
komuz [12] [13] | Kyrgyzstan | 321.321 | Three-stringed fretless lute, made from wood with gut strings |
laouto | Greece | 321.321 | |
laúd | Spain | 321.321 | |
lavta | Armenia, Greece, Turkey | 321.321 | |
liuqin | China | 321.321 | Four-stringed |
mandola | 321.321 | ||
mandolin [14] [15] | Italy. Spread to Europe and worldwide. | 321.321 | Fretted stringed instrument, short-necked, typically 4 courses/8 strings. The types belonging to this category have a flat or canted soundboard and round bowl-back i |
mandolin, octave | 321.321 | ||
mando-bass | 321.321 | Bass mandolin | |
mandocello | 321.321 | ||
mandolute | 321.321 | ||
mandore mandora (not the bass range instrument), mandola (not the same as the modern mandola), vandola, mandörgen, quinterne | Europe | 321.321 | stringed instrument, strung either 4-6 single strings or 4-6 courses of 2 strings |
mandriola | 321.321 | ||
orpharion | 321.321 | ||
oud [16] | Arab | 321.321-6 | Pear-shaped fretless stringed instrument, with five courses of two strings and a single eleventh string, a bent back and a bowl-shaped body, often with up to three soundholes, played with a pick |
pandur | Chechnya | 321.321 | |
pandura | 321.321 | ||
panduri | Georgia | 321.321 | |
pipa [17] | China | 321.321-5 | Pear-shaped bowl lute with a neck, played by plucking |
rubab [1] [18] rabab | Afghanistan | 321.321-6 | Short-necked three-stringed lute with sympathetic and drone strings, fretted and plucked with a plectrum, with a double-chambered body, the lower part of which is covered in skin, and with three main strings |
sallaneh | 321.321 | ||
Saraswati veena | India | 321.321 | |
Šargija | Southeastern Europe | 321.321 | |
saz [19] [20] bağlama, kopuz | Turkey | 321.321-6 | Fretted lute with a long neck, pear-shaped body, and three courses of seven steel strings |
setar | Iran | 321.321 | Pear-shaped lute with a long neck, three or four strings, plucked with the index finger of the right hand |
sitar | India | 321.321 | |
surbahar | India | 321.321 | |
tamburica [21] [22] tamburitza | Croatia | 321.321 | Lute-like stringed instrument with a long neck, picked or strummed, variable number of strings |
theorbo | Europe | 321.321 | Lute-like stringed instrument with an extended neck and two pegboxes. |
tricordia | 321.321 |
The bandura will always be known as Ukraine's national instrument.
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The tamburitza... is the national instrument of the Croatians.