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elegance

Musical equipment; String instruments

The quality of being graceful and stylish in appearance or manner; style.

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, (or, in some earlier ...

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 Guitar'.