Kamancheh
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The kamancheh is an Iranian bowed string instrument used in Persian, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Kurdish, Georgian, Turkmen, and Uzbek music with slight variations in the structure of the instrument. The kamancheh is related to the rebab which is the historical ancestor of the kamancheh and the bowed Byzantine lyra. The strings are played with a variable-tension bow.
Persian Kamānches, ca. 1880
Kamancheh
Kamancha on the Armenian miniature, XVI or XVII century.
Qajar Iran miniature of a woman playing the kamancheh.
Bowed string instrument
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Bowed string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by a bow rubbing the strings. The bow rubbing the string causes vibration which the instrument emits as sound.
Niccolò Paganini playing the violin, by Georg Friedrich Kersting (1785–1847)
Karl Friedrich Abel playing the bass Viola da Gamba, by Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788)
An Indonesian music performer playing with his Rebab.
Two performers playing the Erhu, sometimes known as the Chinese fiddle.