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stringed instrument
noun
- a musical instrument having strings as the medium of sound production, played with the fingers or with a plectrum or a bow:
The guitar, the harp, and the violin are stringed instruments.
stringed instrument
noun
- any musical instrument in which sound is produced by the vibration of a string across a soundboard or soundbox Also calledchordophone
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The record of a stringed instrument, such as a violin, will be almost exactly reproduced.
A bow, essentially similar to that which he employs in the chase, affords the Bushman a simple stringed instrument.
I also found a very artistically carved piece of ebony, which is certainly part of a musical stringed instrument.
It was the cry of an instrument of music, a stringed instrument of some kind, plucked by demure fingers.
Psal′tery, a stringed instrument used by the Jews: psalter; Psal′tress, a woman who plays upon the psaltery.
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