Zing Went the Strings

palooka commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

Unique list! I like to relax by putting on an album of xalam music.

July 16, 2007

slumry commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

dobro? Originally a brand name, it is now used generically.

July 16, 2007

reesetee commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

Me, I go for crwth-tuba fusion myself. ;-)

July 17, 2007

reesetee commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

Thanks, s! Also thanks for the hardanger fiddle suggestion. :-)

July 17, 2007

slumry commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

No doubt a crwth-tuba would sound more pleasant! (now if I can only work crwth into a Scrabble game!

July 17, 2007

palooka commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

ADD a word reesetee - you're at the dreaded 6666!

July 17, 2007

uselessness commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

Oh good heavens, it's the Wordie curse!

July 17, 2007

jennarenn commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

I'M MELLLTTTING!!!!!!!

July 17, 2007

reesetee commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

OH, NOOOOOOOOOO! =:-O

There. All better.

July 17, 2007

uselessness commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

You still need to add three, then it won't start with a 666 anymore. Then throw some salt over your shoulder to seal the deal. :-)

July 17, 2007

reesetee commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

Should I also wash in the blood of a freshly sacrificed lamb? I'm a little rusty on these superstitions....

July 17, 2007

palooka commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

Add a little Screaming Sphincter Hot Sauce to the lamb's blood & you'll be protected.

July 17, 2007

reesetee commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

Oh yes, that oughta hold off the demons. And everyone else in the world.

July 18, 2007

chained_bear commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

Bass? You have guitar, and cello, and I know a bass is technically either a bass guitar or an upright bass, but... Also, do you want to add cithara? You added it on the definition page for phorminx but I don't think it's on the list. Or is it a spelling variant of zither?

March 16, 2008

reesetee commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

Wow, how'd you find this old list again? :-)

I must have overlooked cithara the first time around. Added. As I understand it, "zither" can refer more broadly to a range of stringed instruments in which the strings don't extend beyond the sounding box. So I probably have more work to do on this list.

Hmm...not sure about bass by itself, though. Maybe I'll add the individual bass instruments.

March 17, 2008

chained_bear commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

Since I was looking into piano moving yesterday, I found a bunch of new words—I thought a spinet was its own instrument entirely—a scrawny, weird-looking harpsichord—and it is, but apparently it's also a style of piano (shorter than an upright).

Also have you seen dutar, setar, or just tar anywhere?

March 18, 2008

mollusque commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

How about poliphant?

March 19, 2008

reesetee commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

Good one, mollusque--thanks!

C_b, I added spinet. I have seen dutar (also spelled dotar or doutar), setar, and t�?r. All added, thanks. :-)

March 19, 2008

frindley commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

viol, violone, erhu (Chinese), bandura (Ukrainian, I think), hurdy-gurdy, virginal, theorbo (long-necked lute with extra courses), archlute, viola da gamba (referred to informally as the 'gamba' and therefore literally 'leg'...)

March 19, 2008

frindley commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

Two beautiful Australian stringy zingers:

tea chest bass - a single string bowed instrument in which a tea chest forms the resonator; wikipedia tells me the North American equivalent is the washtub bass

Australele - a 16-string, three-chord zither with a body similar in shape to a ukelele body (but without the neck), manufactured in the 1930s.

March 19, 2008

reesetee commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

Those are some great ones, frindley--thanks. Obviously, I wasn't quite finished with this list. I'm glad we got back to it to fill it out. :-)

March 20, 2008

chained_bear commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

Sheitholt, or scheitholt. (These might also go well on your "Not as Awful as They Sound" list...)

September 29, 2008

hernesheir commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

kamantcha - 3-stringed Armenian fiddle.

October 6, 2009

rolig commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

lovely list. From the Slavic side of the world comes the gusli (Russian) and the similarly named but structurally different gusle (Balkan).

October 6, 2009

reesetee commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

Thanks, all!

October 7, 2009

hernesheir commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

To this list belongs ribibe.

November 20, 2010

ruzuzu commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

And kokle.

November 21, 2010

reesetee commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

Thanks, h and r! Hernesheir, is a ribibe like a rebec (already on the list)?

November 21, 2010

hernesheir commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

I believe ribibe and rebec are nearly one-in-the-same - both founding versions of the viol family of instruments.

November 21, 2010

reesetee commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

Ah, okay. I think that holds for many of the words on this list.

November 21, 2010

hernesheir commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

citole

November 25, 2010

reesetee commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

Thanks!

November 27, 2010

hernesheir commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

soung

December 6, 2010

hernesheir commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

Cf. "asor" and "nebel".

December 20, 2010

hernesheir commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

A nice find, with photos in Google's images: pluriarc, the bow lute - perhaps derived from the musical bow.

December 29, 2010

ruzuzu commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

I was just reading "A High-Toned Old Christian Woman," and I was shocked to discover that cithern is not on this list.

December 5, 2011

reesetee commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

It may just be the spelling. I ran across so many variously spelled words that I'm not sure I captured them all here. But I'll add it, just to be sure. :-)

December 6, 2011

fbharjo commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

singen-singen (Heinrich Schütz)

December 6, 2011

hernesheir commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

domra

December 27, 2011

hernesheir commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

kin - A primitive Chinese instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings CD&C.

January 5, 2012

reesetee commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

Thanks!

March 2, 2012

kalayzich commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

guqin is also qin

August 7, 2012

reesetee commented on the list zing-went-the-strings

Hi, kalayzich. Thanks. There are several variants for many of the words on this list, for rather obvious reasons. I've added qin as one of them.

August 30, 2012