by picking or pulling them with fingers or a pick, cause the strings on a stringed instrument to vibrate
Pluck
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Pick
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small piece of plastic (or other material including metal, bone or shell) that is used to strum or pluck stringed instruments…
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where on stringed instruments the tuning pegs or, in the case of instrument fitted with a worm gear system, machine heads use…
Pegdisc
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where on stringed instruments the tuning pegs or, in the case of instrument fitted with a worm gear system, machine heads use…
Purfling
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an inlay of wood placed along or just inside the border of the belly and back of instruments of the stringed instrument famil…
Arco
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play a stringed instrument with a bow as opposed to plucked or pizzicato; the bow of a stringed instrument
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instrument played in Southern India with six playing strings which pass over the top of the instrument, three drone strings a…
Sitar
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Sympathetic strings
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