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[[File:Chicago Symphony Orchestra 2005.jpg|thumb|right|240px|The [[Chicago Symphony Orchestra]] performing with a jazz group. The string sections are at the front of the orchestra, arrayed in a semicircle around the [[conducting|conductor's]] podium.]]
The '''string section''' is composed of bowed instruments belonging to the [[violin family]]. It normally consists of first and second [[violin]]s, [[viola]]s, [[cello]]s, and [[double basses]]. It is the most numerous group in the standard [[orchestra]]. In discussions of the [[Orchestration|instrumentation]] of a musical work, the phrase "the strings" or "and strings" is used to indicate a string section as just defined. An orchestra consisting solely of a string section is called a [[string orchestra]]. Smaller string sections are sometimes used in jazz, pop, and rock music and in the [[pit orchestra]]s of [[musical theatre]].Some times electric guitars are also there in a an orchestra
==Seating arrangement==
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