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By the 19th and 20th centuries, the guitar (and related stringed instruments) also acquired certain social meanings.

Traditionally worn by sixth-graders and jocks and those who lounge aggressively, the draw-stringed trouser is defiantly apathetic.

I played first and last, and the quartette in between was performed by the stringed instruments alone.

One of the musicians played upon two small drums, the other two on four-stringed instruments, similar to our violins.

It appears then that two kinds of seven-stringed scales were known, at least by tradition: viz.

This must have been true a fortiori of the older seven-stringed scale, in which the Mes united the two conjunct tetrachords.

Regarding the earlier seven-stringed scales which preceded this octave our information is scanty and somewhat obscure.