stringed instrument
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stringed instrument (plural stringed instruments)
(music) Any of very many musical instruments in which taut strings are plucked, bowed or struck in order to produce a sound
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I have always felt rather badly for orchestra musicians, especially the stringed instrument player who certainly in his youth expected to be a virtuoso... I admire their patience and ability, and through the years have made the effort to show them my respect and – love in many instances.
Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a stringed instrument in two years.
Because of this, the euphonium has been called the "king of band instruments", or the " cello of the band", because of its similarity in timbre and ensemble role to the stringed instrument.
Because the range of pluck stringed instrument generally isn't as great as that of comparably-size bowed string instruments, other instruments were often added to these plucked orchestras to extend the range of the ensemble upwards and downwards.
During the Renaissance the gambas were important and elegant instruments; they eventually lost ground to the louder (and originally less aristocratic) lira da braccio family. stringed instrument.
In blues music, the harmonica is often casually referred to as a "blues harp" or "harp", but it is a free reed wind instrument, not a stringed instrument, and is therefore not a true harp.