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Musical equipment
Any device used to create sound, especially musical instruments.
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elegance
Musical equipment; String instruments
The quality of being graceful and stylish in appearance or manner; style.
harp
Musical equipment; String instruments
A stringed musical instrument, which, in its usual form, consists of a framework of wood fitted with a series of strings of definite lengths which are played with the fingers, ...
mandolin
Musical equipment; String instruments
Plucked stringed instrument of Italian origin, now usually of eight strings tuned in pairs (to the same four notes as a violin) and played with plectrum.
ukelele
Musical equipment; String instruments
A small guitar-like four-stringed instrument from the South Pacific islands (but of Portuguese origin)having some vogue since the 1920's in the USA and Europe.
banjo
Musical equipment; String instruments
Fretted instrument of five or more strings, plucked with fingers or plectrum; taken over from U.S. Negro slaves by black-faced minstrel shows, and also used in early jazz.
dulcimer
Musical equipment; String instruments
A type of instrument (old, but still in use for traditional music, e.g. in Eastern Europe) in which strings stretched over a sound-board are struck with hammers.
guitar
Musical equipment; String instruments
Plucked, fretted string instrument: it exists in various types of which the principal one came to other European countries from Spain and is therefore sometimes called 'Spanish ...
Sub-categories
- Drums (2290)
- Electric musical equipment (120)
- Guitars (372)
- Percussion instruments (188)
- Pianos (907)
- String instruments (537)
- Violins (28)
- Wind instruments (140)