"Praise the LORD
with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings."
(Psalm 33:2)
Fretted instruments
Fretted
instruments are fitted with frets and the strings are plucked.
The player presses his or her finger against a fret to shorten the length
of vibrating string.
This family includes the guitar
,
lyre, harp,
lute, balalaika, zither, mandolin,
banjo,
ukulele and the sitar,
originating in India.
" And the king
made of the almug trees pillars for the house of the LORD, and for the
king's house,
harps also and psalteries
for singers" (1 Kings, chapter 10:12)
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