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stringed instrument

noun

  1. 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

  1. any musical instrument in which sound is produced by the vibration of a string across a soundboard or soundbox Also calledchordophone
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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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