Anything with strings requires a special touch, whether the person is playing the sensitive viola or a screamin' loud electric guitar.  To produce sound on a stringed instrument you must vibrate it's strings and there are three common ways to do this.

"Plucking" creates a sound by use of either finger, thumb or pick.  The guitar. banjo, mandolin, and dulcimer are familiar examples.  "Bowing" involves drawing a bow across the strings as you would with the cello or any of the instruments in the violin family. And finally "striking" creates sound when the strings are struck with a hammer.  The hammered dulcimer is one example and the piano (also considered a percussion instrument) is another since the mechanical action on it's keys produces pounding on it's strings.

Click on the "sample sound' to hear an instrument and then click "Back" to return.

MANDOLIN

 Alvarez
Austin
Cort
Indiana
 

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DULCIMERS 
     

Hill Country Dulcimers

Click here for sample sound: VIOLIN

Below are the brand names we carry, you can also link to the manufacturer's web site for more information by clicking on their name or logo.

GUITARS

 Alvarez
Austin
Cort
Indiana

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BANJOS

Deering
 Alvarez
Austin
Cort
Indiana

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VIOLINS & VIOLAS
 

Scherl & Roth
Glaesel
Wm Lewis & Son
Eastman Strings

Click here for sample sound: VIOLIN
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CELLOS & BASSES

Scherl & Roth
Glaesel
Wm Lewis &  Son
Eastman Strings

Click here for a sample sound:  CELLO