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tablature
tablature , in music, a generic system of musical notation indicating actions that the player must take, rather than "representing" the music itself that will result from those actions. Tablatures have been in use in the West since the early 14th cent., mostly for keyboard and plucked string... Read more |
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ukulele
ukulele , Hawaiian musical instrument developed from the Portuguese guitar. It has a fretted fingerboard and four strings that are plucked or strummed. Patented in 1917, the ukulele became popular in the United States in the 1920s. It is also spelled ukelele.... Read more |
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psaltery
psaltery , stringed musical instrument. It has a flat soundboard over which a variable number of strings are stretched. Its origin was in the Middle East, and it is referred to in the Bible. It appeared in Europe in the 12th cent. and flourished until the late Middle Ages. The term psaltery is... Read more |
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banjo
banjo stringed musical instrument, with a body resembling a tambourine. The banjo consists of a hoop over which a skin membrane is stretched; it has a long, often fretted neck and four to nine strings, which are plucked with a pick or the fingers. Slaves brought it to America (by 1688) from W... Read more |
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koto
koto , a Japanese string instrument related in structure to the zither . It consists of an elongated rectangular wooden body, strung lengthwise with 7 to 13 silk strings. The uniformly long strings are tuned to one of several standard tunings by moveable wooden bridges. The koto is placed... Read more |
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lyre
lyre generic term for stringed musical instruments having a sound box from which project curved arms joined by a crossbar. The strings are stretched between the crossbar and the sound box and are plucked with the fingers or with a plectrum. In ancient times Sumer, Babylonia, Israel, and Egypt had... Read more |
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cittern
cittern , stringed musical instrument of the guitar family having an oval body, a flat back, and a fretted neck. Its strings, made of wire and varying in number, were plucked. It was first made in the Middle Ages and at that time was usually called citole or sitole. The name cittern was given it... Read more |
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mandolin
mandolin , musical instrument of the lute family, with a half-pear-shaped body, a fretted neck, and a variable number of strings, plucked with the fingers or with a plectrum. The earlier mandolin, with five double strings, was developed from the mandola, a 17th-century lute. The Neapolitan mandolin,... Read more |
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stringed instrument
stringed instrument Musical instrument sounded by the vibration of strings. Instruments fall into different classes, according to the action used to set the strings in motion: bowed, chiefly those of the violin family; plucked, chiefly the harp, lute, and guitar; and plucked and struck, such as the... Read more |
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Come visit with Sister Sally, Hawk and Spenser; hone your Occam's razor and...
...those who might have nodded during...most readers will show up at the gate...Encarta. AHDIV shows it as a closed...3. "You may have to scrap (sic...Other Tales of Pluck". A honey of...IV displays "ukulele ... n. A ... |
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The magic of synthetic prosthetics.(Celebrity World)
...film festivals have all proven the...prosthetic artists have made for the...a Valentine show with Rico J...classical guitar player, will reprise...Libanan will again have singers Isay...who started to pluck strings from a ... |
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Guitar players get their apps; Guitarists turn iPhones into tuners
...2009 Guitar players get their apps...with Guitar Hero have emerged as critical...Guitarist ($4), players can finger chords...try out when you have the real instrument...less experienced player like me, at least...including the ... |
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Culture: Big success with strings attached; Banjo player Danielle Saxon...
...chicken and a banjo have in common? They...squawk when you pluck 'em! That is...a year ago for players of banjos, mandolins, guitars and ukuleles. It has 16 members...songs from the shows, some of which...styles of music ... |
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The Ascetic Junkies can't hide their joy.(Ticket)(The band's upbeat sound...
...other - and always have. That first album...free CD release show at CD World...glockenspiel, playful plucks on the banjo...sometimes a little ukulele, the group does...It's hard to have a sad album if...arrangement. Bass ... |
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Aloha Blues
...Hawaiian didn't have any of the usual...extended family would have big musical jam...and the fingers pluck the melody-at...greats like dobro player Jerry Douglas...includes Kaapana's ukulele playing and Allison...At his live ... |
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The Tough Cats bring bluegrass, folk to Belfast
...wear overalls and pluck away. Either way...besides banjo includes ukulele, resonator guitar...much," said banjo player and vocalist Colin...few songs for the show, decided it sounded...from playing many shows, now that all three...more - ... |