Five-string guitar or five-string may refer to:
Plucked
- Baroque guitar, c. 1600–1750
- bass guitar, with five strings (also often with four or six strings)
- extended-range electric bass guitar, with five strings (also often with six or occasionally more strings)
- five-string banjo (also often with four or six strings)
- six-string guitar with one string removed, often the low "E", and retuned
- vihuela, from Spain, Portugal, or Italy c. 1450-1550 (also often with six courses of strings)
- Mexican vihuela, c. 1800–present, often played in mariachi groups
Bowed
- a five string violin, a modern version of a violin with an extra string (six and seven string electric violins also exist)
See also
Topics referred to by the same term
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