| NOUN | a string instrument | string instruments | |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- in reference to an ancient string instrument in this usage.
- Instruments during that period included the double-reed aulos and the plucked string instrument, the lyre, especially the special kind called a kithara.
- or by other names, is the largest and lowest-pitched string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox additions such as the octobass).
- This applies when a certain string must sound two notes in the shape due to the natural limits of a fretted string instrument.
- is a bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family.
- It is a popular ensemble featuring the national string instrument, the morin khuur, and performs various domestic and international works.
- Their guitar design, with a single outward-facing resonator cone, was introduced to compete with the patented inward-facing tricone and biscuit designs produced by the National String Instrument Corporation.
- Violin family string instrument players are occasionally instructed to strike the string with the stick of the bow, a technique called "col legno".
- It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and scale length, and typically four to six strings or courses.
- , of an enslaved person playing a banjo-like instrument (The Old Plantation) shows a four-string instrument with its fourth (thumb) string shorter than the others.
- Samuel Adler classifies the harp as a plucked string instrument in the same category as the guitar (acoustic or electric), mandolin, banjo, or zither.
- is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body.
- Steel guitar strings were introduced near the end of the nineteenth century in the United States; The guitar's ancestors include the gittern, the vihuela, the four-course Renaissance guitar, and the five-course baroque guitar, all of which contributed to the development of the modern six-string instrument.
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