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Definition of Stringed instrument
1. Noun. A musical instrument in which taut strings provide the source of sound.
Terms within: Bridge, Peg, Soundboard, Sounding Board, String
Generic synonyms: Instrument, Musical Instrument
Definition of Stringed instrument
1. Noun. (music) Any of very many musical instruments in which taut strings are plucked, bowed or struck in order to produce a sound ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Stringed Instrument
Literary usage of Stringed instrument
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish by Eugene O'Curry (1873)
"References to the Timpan aa late as the seventeenth century, proving it to have
been a stringed instrument. The Timpan was distinguished from the Cruit or ..."
2. The Dictionary of Biographical Reference: Containing Over One Hundred by Lawrence Barnett Phillips (1889)
"Italian stringed instrument Stone, John Augustus, American dramatist and poet ;
1801—1834 a. Stone, John H.. Amer, généalogie:.! writer ; 1860 a. ..."
3. Modern Music and Musicians by Louis Charles Elson (1918)
"The banjo is a stringed instrument with a flattish circular body and a long neck.
... The six-stringed instrument is tuned up as written from the same G, ..."
4. Elson's Music Dictionary: Containing the Definition and Pronunciation of by Louis Charles Elson (1905)
"stringed instrument; music of a stringed instrument. Saiten-spieler (Ger. ...
Player on a stringed instrument. Saiten-ton (Ger.) (jy-t'n tön. ..."
5. Elson's Music Dictionary: Containing the Definition and Pronunciation of by Louis Charles Elson (1905)
"Player on a stringed instrument. Saiten ton (Ger.) (jy-t'n ton.) The tone of a
stringed instrument. Saitig (Ger.) (jy-tlg.) Stringed. ..."
6. Elson's Music Dictionary: Containing the Definition and Pronunciation of by Louis Charles Elson (1905)
"stringed instrument; music of a stringed instrument. Saiten-spieler (Ger. ...
Player on a stringed instrument. Saiten-ton (Ger.) (jy-t'n ton. ..."
7. The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: A Study with the Text of the by William Shakespeare, George MacDonald (1885)
"... 1 —with allusion to the frets or stop-marks of a. stringed instrument. 2 —to
Polonius. 3 There is nothing insanely arbitrary in these suggestions of ..."
8. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Fitzwilliam Museum by Montague Rhodes James (1895)
"In front lies a stringed instrument of a triangular shape, with 15 horizontal
strings : a hand with ray.> at top on A". 19. Initial. ..."