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stringed instrument

NOUN
  1. a musical instrument in which taut strings provide the source of sound

How To Use stringed instrument In A Sentence

  • A piano and stringed instruments were purchased and the family formed a string quartet.
  • There are two sure ways of making a fortune in art: buy an undervalued old master, or a Cremona stringed instrument.
  • She plays a Slavic stringed instrument whose strings are of different lengths and heights, producing a sound softer than that of the violin.
  • An unusually stringed instrument, the sarangi is being forced into oblivion because of lack of interest.
  • The commonest materials for Western stringed instruments are gut, metal, and latterly plastic, though such other materials as silk and horsehair have been used.
  • The guqin, a seven-stringed zither, is the oldest of China's stringed instruments, dating back some 3,000 years.
  • Popular stringed instruments include the oud, which is related to the European lute, and the rebaba, which has only one string.
  • The Brazilian martial art capoeira combines dance, music, high kicks and leg sweeps and is performed in a circle known as a roda, to the music of a single-stringed instrument called a berimbau and hand-claps. Week in Words
  • See artisans at work making these beautiful stringed instruments.
  • AmE lieuténant, BrE lefténant littérateur literatër lorgnette, lorgnon lornyét, lornyón louche loôsh luthier-a maker of stringed instruments such as violins or guitars məshêen madame brothel, Madame title madáme, cf. mádam shopping madeleine mádeleíne mademoiselle madame wàzél maisonette maizonét maître d'hôtel métradô-tél, mâitradô-tél maladroit maladrŏit malcontent malines malêen mandoline (also 'mandolin' in English) mándə-lín margarine marjərìne marque type Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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