Five-string guitar explained

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

• Guitar (disambiguation)