| NOUN | artifact | bowed stringed instrument, string | stringed instruments that are played with a bow |
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| Meaning | stringed instruments that are played with a bow. | |
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| Synonym | string | |
| Parts | fingerboard | A narrow strip of wood on the neck of some stringed instruments (violin or cello or guitar etc) where the strings are held against the wood with the fingers |
| Narrower | bass fiddle, bass viol, bull fiddle, double bass, contrabass, string bass | largest and lowest member of the violin family |
| cello, violoncello | A large stringed instrument | |
| viol | Any of a family of bowed stringed instruments that preceded the violin family | |
| viola | A bowed stringed instrument slightly larger / larger than a violin, tuned a fifth lower | |
| violin, fiddle | bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family | |
| Broader | stringed instrument | A musical instrument in which taut strings provide the source of sound |
| Catalan | instrument de corda amb arc | |
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