String instrument (English Wikipedia)

Jahnel, Franz (1965). Manual of Guitar Technology: The History and Technology of Plucked String Instruments. Fachbuchreihe "Das Musikinstrument", vol. 37. p. 15. ISBN 0-933224-99-0. There have been some uncertain presumptions concerning the "invention" of the bowed harp...The "musical bow" conjectured by many music scholars is not definitely recognizable in any cave paintings. The fact that some African negroes held the end of their bow-shaped harp in their mouths in order to improve the tone...should not be taken as proof that the first European bowmen were also conversant with the musical bow.
Dumbrill, Richard J. (2005). The Archaeomusicology of the Ancient Near East. Victoria, British Columbia: Trafford Publishing. pp. 319–320. ISBN 1-4120-5538-5. OCLC 1020920823. The long-necked lute in the OED is orthographed as tambura; tambora, tamera, tumboora; tambur(a) and tanpoora. We have an Arabic Õunbur; Persian tanbur; Armenian pandir; Georgian panturi, and a Serbo-Croat tamburitza. The Greeks called it pandura; panduros; phanduros; panduris or pandurion. The Latin is pandura. It is attested as a Nubian instrument in the third century BC. The earliest literary allusion to lutes in Greece comes from Anaxilas in his play The Lyre-maker as 'trichordos'... According to Pollux, the trichordon (sic) was Assyrian and they gave it the name pandoura...These instruments survive today in the form of the various Arabian tunbar...

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"Cylinder seal". British Museum. Archived from the original on 2017-07-02. Retrieved 2017-06-15. Culture/period Uruk, Date 3100BC (circa1), Museum number 141632

Campos, Fredeliza Z.; Hull, Jennifer R.; Hồng, Vương Thu (2023). "In search of a musical past: evidence for early chordophones from Vietnam". Antiquity. 97 (391): 141–157. doi:10.15184/aqy.2022.170. ISSN 0003-598X. S2CID 257039609 – via Cambridge Core.

Campos, Fredeliza Z.; Hull, Jennifer R.; Hồng, Vương Thu (2023). "In search of a musical past: evidence for early chordophones from Vietnam". Antiquity. 97 (391): 141–157. doi:10.15184/aqy.2022.170. ISSN 0003-598X. S2CID 257039609 – via Cambridge Core.

"The Deceased is the Young Lutaia Lupata Who is Shown Playing the Lute or Pandurium". 20 September 2014 – via flickr. Museum information sign for the stele. Circa 2nd century AD memorial stele from Augusta Emerita in modern Spain for a Roman boy, Lutaia Lupata, showing him with his pandurium, the Roman variant of the Greek Pandura. Kept at the Museo Arqueologico, Mérida, Spain.

Campen, Ank van. "The music-bow from prehistory till today". HarpHistory.info. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 26, 2015. A cave-painting in the "Trois Frères" cave in France dating from about 15,000 years ago. The magician-hunter plays the musical bow.

Wooster, Patricia McNulty. "Pedal Harp 101". harp spectrum.org. Retrieved March 18, 2021.

"Barbat". Encyclopædia Iranica. 1988-12-15. Archived from the original on 2015-05-17. Retrieved 2023-06-15.

"Five Celestial Musicians". LACMA.org. Archived from the original on 10 October 2017. Retrieved 15 May 2017. Views 3 & 4 show a musician playing a 4th- to 5th-century lute-like instrument, excavated in Gandhara, and part of a Los Angeles County Art Museum collection of Five Celestial Musicians

"Oxford Music Online by subscription". www.oxfordmusiconline.com. Archived from the original on 2011-02-24. Retrieved 2015-09-17.

Campos, Fredeliza Z.; Hull, Jennifer R.; Hồng, Vương Thu (2023). "In search of a musical past: evidence for early chordophones from Vietnam". Antiquity. 97 (391): 141–157. doi:10.15184/aqy.2022.170. ISSN 0003-598X. S2CID 257039609 – via Cambridge Core.

Brenner, Patrick. "Early History of the Steel Guitar". steelguitaramerica.com. Patrick Brenner. Retrieved March 17, 2021.

Scott, Heather K. (January 5, 2004). "The Differences Between Dark and Amber Rosin". Strings Magazine. Retrieved February 1, 2020.

Aguilar, Jorge (2003). "String Instruments". University of Florida. Archived from the original on January 30, 2019. Retrieved February 1, 2020.

"Trois Freres Cave". Archived from the original on March 18, 2015. Retrieved March 27, 2015.

Campen, Ank van. "The music-bow from prehistory till today". HarpHistory.info. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 26, 2015. A cave-painting in the "Trois Frères" cave in France dating from about 15,000 years ago. The magician-hunter plays the musical bow.
"Trois Freres Cave". Archived from the original on March 18, 2015. Retrieved March 27, 2015.
"Cylinder seal". British Museum. Archived from the original on 2017-07-02. Retrieved 2017-06-15. Culture/period Uruk, Date 3100BC (circa1), Museum number 141632
"Barbat". Encyclopædia Iranica. 1988-12-15. Archived from the original on 2015-05-17. Retrieved 2023-06-15.
"Five Celestial Musicians". LACMA.org. Archived from the original on 10 October 2017. Retrieved 15 May 2017. Views 3 & 4 show a musician playing a 4th- to 5th-century lute-like instrument, excavated in Gandhara, and part of a Los Angeles County Art Museum collection of Five Celestial Musicians
"Bracket with two musicians 100s, Pakistan, Gandhara, probably Butkara in Swat, Kushan Period (1st century-320)". The Cleveland Museum of Art. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 25, 2015.
Aguilar, Jorge (2003). "String Instruments". University of Florida. Archived from the original on January 30, 2019. Retrieved February 1, 2020.

"Oxford Music Online by subscription". www.oxfordmusiconline.com. Archived from the original on 2011-02-24. Retrieved 2015-09-17.

Campos, Fredeliza Z.; Hull, Jennifer R.; Hồng, Vương Thu (2023). "In search of a musical past: evidence for early chordophones from Vietnam". Antiquity. 97 (391): 141–157. doi:10.15184/aqy.2022.170. ISSN 0003-598X. S2CID 257039609 – via Cambridge Core.
Dumbrill, Richard J. (2005). The Archaeomusicology of the Ancient Near East. Victoria, British Columbia: Trafford Publishing. pp. 319–320. ISBN 1-4120-5538-5. OCLC 1020920823. The long-necked lute in the OED is orthographed as tambura; tambora, tamera, tumboora; tambur(a) and tanpoora. We have an Arabic Õunbur; Persian tanbur; Armenian pandir; Georgian panturi, and a Serbo-Croat tamburitza. The Greeks called it pandura; panduros; phanduros; panduris or pandurion. The Latin is pandura. It is attested as a Nubian instrument in the third century BC. The earliest literary allusion to lutes in Greece comes from Anaxilas in his play The Lyre-maker as 'trichordos'... According to Pollux, the trichordon (sic) was Assyrian and they gave it the name pandoura...These instruments survive today in the form of the various Arabian tunbar...