English > stringed instrument: 1 sense > noun 1, artifact| Meaning | A musical instrument in which taut strings provide the source of sound. |
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| Parts | bridge | A wooden support that holds the strings up |
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| peg | regulator that can be turned to regulate the pitch of the strings of a stringed instrument |
| sounding board, soundboard | (music) resonator consisting of a thin board whose vibrations reinforce the sound of the instrument |
| Narrower | banjo | A stringed instrument of the guitar family that has long neck and circular body |
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| bowed stringed instrument, string | stringed instruments that are played with a bow |
| chordophone | A stringed instrument of the group including harps, lutes, lyres, and zithers |
| clavichord | An early stringed instrument like a piano but with more delicate sound |
| clavier, Klavier | A stringed instrument that has a keyboard |
| dulcimer | A stringed instrument used in American folk music |
| guitar | A stringed instrument usually having six strings |
| koto | Japanese stringed instrument that resembles a zither |
| piano, pianoforte, forte-piano | A keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds |
| psaltery | An ancient stringed instrument similar to the lyre or zither but having a trapezoidal sounding board under the strings |
| samisen, shamisen | A Japanese stringed instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and three strings and a fretted fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox |
| sitar | A stringed instrument of India |
| zither, cither, zithern | A musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board |
| Broader | musical instrument, instrument | Any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds |
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| Spanish | cordófono, instrumento de cuerda |
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| Catalan | instrument de corda |
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