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Anime Girl Playing the Chapman Stick
This is a new anime drawing of mine. It features a maiden playing the Chapman Stick. The instrument was invented by Emmett Chapman in 1970s. It belongs to the family of guitars. It has 10 and 12 strings. It can combine well with a synthesizers. Chapman created the instrument to utilize free hands playing style. It took him about 5 years to develop the instrument. Since it is a relatively new musical instrument, it still gets played often. There is about a dozen modern day musicians who use the Chapman Stick for their guitar solos. The new Drawing was made...
Anime Girl Playing the Cimbalom
This is a new anime drawing of mine featuring the cimbalom. The instrument is a type of chordophone. It looks a bit like the backend of a piano. It was invented in 1874 in Budapest by V. Josef Schunda. The instrument is derived from the Hammered Dulcimer. This instrument is played with two sticks. The instrument is made with copper strings. The instrument gets played often in classical music. It has even been used in rock music. Due to its popularity, there are many different schools all over Europe that teach the instrument. The drawing was made with cute coloring...
Anime Girl Playing the Bouzouki
This is like a new anime drawing of mine featuring the bouzouki. It is a type of guitar. There are a lot of string instruments. This one in particular was invented in Greece. It was first depicted in a relief that dates to the 330 BC. The relief was found in Athens. During the Byzantine period, it was known a the pandoura. There are many different sizes to this instrument. The number of strings also varies. The instrument is still being played today. It is still as popular as ever in Greek Laiko music. Laiko is the Greek equivalent of...
Anime Girl Playing the Cello
In this drawing, I feature a maiden playing the Cello. The cello is like a very big violin. It has a nice, sad type of music to it. I frankly enjoy a lot better the sound of the cello. The violin is a little too upbeat for my taste. As to be expected, the Cello is a pretty common orchestral musician instrument. It gets about the same attention as the violin. There are less cello players mainly because of the size of the instrument. The cello was invented around the 1530s. It belongs to the violin family. Some of the...
Anime Girl Playing the Harp Music Instrument Drawing
This is another silly anime drawing featuring a music instrument. The harp is a bit more common in comparison to all the other instruments I mentioned. It came in many different shapes and sizes. There are examples of ancient harps in Iran, Iraq, Egypt, India and China. Other versions later appeared in the continent of Africa, and even as far as Ireland. Needless to say, the harp has always been a pretty popular instrument in almost all parts of the world. The oldest one dates to 3500 BC. It was found in Sumer. I like saying BC, instead of BCE....