Definition of Stringed instrument

1. Noun. A musical instrument in which taut strings provide the source of sound.


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

string sedges
string someone along
string theoretic
string theories
string theory
string tie
string together
string trimmer
string trimmers
string up
stringboard
stringboards
stringcourse
stringcourses
stringed
stringed instrument (current term)
stringed instruments
stringencies
stringency
stringendo
stringent
stringently
stringentness
stringer
stringers
stringhalt
stringhalted
stringhalts
stringhamite
stringier

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. ..."

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