ATLAS of Plucked Instruments

<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage Express 2.0"><meta name="keywords" content="encyclopedia, lutes, guitars, mandolins, banjos, cittern, pedal steel guitar, dobro, dulcimer, viola, autoharp, longneck, long neck, shortneck, short neck, ethnic, plucked, stringed instrument, chordophone, tokkelinstrument, zupfinstrumente, africa, south east asia, south america, mexico, india, europe, china, far east, central asia, magreb, medieval, renaissance, baroque, romantic period, fretted, fretless, "> <meta name="description" content="encyclopedia of all the world's plucked stringed instruments of the lute, guitar, banjo and mandolin type"> <title>ATLAS of Plucked Instruments</title> <link href="sheetstyle.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> </head> <center><table border="0" cellpadding="4" height="56"> <tr> <td width="148" height="52" class="body1">HOME</td> <td width="618" height="52" valign="middle" class="body1">ATLAS of Plucked Instruments </td> </tr> </table> <hr size="4" color="#800000"> <table width="792" height="1017" border="0" cellpadding="10"> <tr> <td width="132" height="1013" valign="top" class="body1"> • <a href="index.htm">HOME</a> • <a href="about.htm">about</a> • <a href="collection.htm">collection</a> • <a href="books.htm">books</a> • <a href="music.htm">index</a> • <a href="links.htm">links</a> • <a href="lutes.htm">lutes</a> • <a href="guitars.htm">guitars early</a> • <a href="guitars2.htm">guitars modern </a>• <a href="mandolins.htm">mandolins</a> • <a href="cittern.htm">cittern</a> • <a href="banjos.htm">banjos</a> • <a href="steelguitars.htm">steelguitars </a>• <a href="miscellany.htm">miscellaneous</a> </a>• <a href="europe.htm">Europe West </a>• <a href="europe2.htm">Europe East</a> • <a href="europe3.htm">Europe South</a> • <a href="africa.htm">Africa</a> • <a href="middle_east.htm">Middle East</a> • <a href="central_asia.htm">Central Asia</a> • <a href="india.htm">India</a> • <a href="far_east.htm">Far East</a> • <a href="se_asia.htm">S.E. 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Usually the menu on the right side on the YOUTUBE page gives you more similar examples. </div></td> <td width="614" align="center" valign="top" bgcolor="#E9E9E9">an encyclopedia of all the world's plucked instruments of lute, guitar, banjo and mandolin type <table width="509" border="0" cellpadding="2"> <tr> <td width="537" class="body1">Based on a large private collection of plucked stringed musical instruments (plus additional material from books and websites), this ATLAS will give you information about almost all the different plucked instruments still in use.</td> </tr> </table> <table width="99%" border="0" cellpadding="2"> <tr> <td width="10%" height="149" class="bodytxt"><a href="lutes.htm"><img src="index/lute_rennaiss.jpg" alt="lutes" name="lutes" width="54" height="140" border="0" id="lutes"></a></td> <td width="8%" class="bodytxt"><a href="guitars.htm"><img src="index/chitarra_battente.jpg" alt="guitars 1" name="guitars1" width="42" height="140" border="0" id="guitars1"></a></td> <td width="9%" class="bodytxt"><a href="guitars2.htm"><img src="index/guitar_solid_body.jpg" alt="guitars 2" name="guitars2" width="44" height="140" border="0" id="guitars2"></a></td> <td width="10%" class="bodytxt"><a href="mandolins.htm"><img src="index/mandolinbluegr3.jpg" alt="mandolins" name="mandolins" width="54" height="140" border="0" id="mandolins"></a></td> <td width="9%" class="bodytxt"><a href="cittern.htm"><img src="index/citole3.jpg" alt="cittern" name="cittern" width="47" height="140" border="0" id="cittern"></a></td> <td width="9%" class="bodytxt"><a href="banjos.htm"><img src="index/banjo_5string.jpg" alt="banjos" name="banjos" width="49" height="140" border="0" id="banjos"></a></td> <td width="10%" class="bodytxt"><a href="steelguitars.htm"><img src="index/delvecchio3.jpg" alt="steelguitars" name="steelguitars" width="55" height="140" border="0" id="steelguitars"></a></td> <td width="10%" class="body1"><a href="miscellany.htm"><img src="index/stoessel%20laute1.jpg" alt="miscellaneous" name="mioscellaneous" width="41" height="140" border="0" id="mioscellaneous"></a></td> <td width="25%" align="left" valign="bottom" class="exmpl">  WELCOME ! Click on the menu on the left, or on one of the instruments - and this will bring you to the relevant page. </td> </tr> </table> <table width="98%" border="0" cellpadding="2"> <tr> <td width="9%" height="144"><a href="europe.htm"><img src="index/viola_braguesa.jpg" alt="Europe west" name="EuropeW" width="53" height="140" border="0" id="EuropeW"></a></td> <td width="6%"><a href="europe2.htm"><img src="index/tambura_macedonia.jpg" alt="Europe east" name="EuropeE" width="33" height="140" border="0" id="EuropeE"></a></td> <td width="8%"><a href="europe3.htm"><img src="index/bouzouki2jpg.jpg" alt="Europe south" name="EuropeS" width="45" height="140" border="0" id="EuropeS"></a></td> <td width="7%" height="144"><a href="africa.htm"><img src="index/ramkie3.jpg" alt="Africa" name="Africa" width="40" height="140" border="0" id="Africa"></a></td> <td width="10%" height="144"><a href="middle_east.htm"><img src="index/ud3.jpg" alt="Middle East" name="MiddleEast" width="60" height="140" border="0" id="MiddleEast"></a></td> <td width="6%" height="144"><a href="central_asia.htm"><img src="index/dolanrawap.jpg" alt="Central Asia" name="CentralAsia" width="32" height="140" border="0" id="CentralAsia"></a></td> <td width="7%" height="144"><a href="india.htm"><img src="index/sitar.jpg" alt="India" name="India" width="42" height="140" border="0" id="India"></a></td> <td width="8%" height="144"><a href="far_east.htm"><img src="index/pipa3.jpg" alt="Far East" name="FarEast" width="45" height="140" border="0" id="FarEast"></a></td> <td width="5%" height="144"><a href="se_asia.htm"><img src="index/sape3.jpg" alt="S.E.Asia" name="SEAsia" width="29" height="140" border="0" id="SEAsia"></a></td> <td width="9%"><a href="n_america.htm"><img src="index/vihuela%20mexico.jpg" alt="America north" name="AmericaN" width="56" height="140" border="0" id="AmericaN"></a></td> <td width="9%"><a href="central_america.htm"><img src="index/cuatro_pr.jpg" alt="America central" name="AmericaC" width="49" height="140" border="0" id="AmericaC"></a></td> <td width="16%" height="144"><a href="south_america.htm"><img src="index/charango.jpg" alt="America south" name="AmericaS" width="36" height="140" border="0" id="AmericaS"></a></td> </tr> </table> <table width="99%" border="0" cellpadding="4"> <tr> <td width="46%" height="198" valign="top"> <img src="index/collectionball7.jpg" width="269" height="186"></td> <td width="54%" height="198" align="right" valign="top" bgcolor="#e9e9e9"> <div align="right" class="body1"> If you have any questions or remarks, or can provide additional information, or if you know of an instrument not included, please let me know. 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