String Instrument Family

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Across
  1. 2. South African string instrument with a flexible stick and string
  2. 4. Ancestor of the guitar with a pear-shaped body
  3. 5. The national instrument of Japan
  4. 7. An early stringed instrument whose strings are stretched across a wooden sound box and hit with small hammers
  5. 10. A stringed instrument in the guitar family with a long neck, five strings and a round body like a tambourine
  6. 11. An ancient harp-like string instrument
  7. 12. Slightly larger than and sounds a fifth lower than a violin
  8. 13. A plucked stringed instrument, originating from the Indian subcontinent.
Down
  1. 1. The highest pitched member of the string instrument family. Often used in country or folk music
  2. 3. The largest and lowest-pitched instrument in the string family. It rests on the floor on a metal peg
  3. 5. West African string instrument with 21 strings
  4. 6. A strummed instrument with strings stretched across a resonating box
  5. 8. Double the length of a violin and is held between the knees
  6. 9. A Japanese short-necked lute, often used in narrative storytelling.