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Archilute
noun · 78% connection
A large theorbo, or double-necked lute, formerly in use, having the bass strings doubled with an octave, and the higher strings with a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, eight, strings, system, tones.
Banister
noun · 78% connection
A stringed musical instrument having a head and neck like the guitar, and its body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is play…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, eight, strings, system, tones.
Bridge
noun · 78% connection
The small arch or bar at right angles to the strings of a violin, guitar, etc., serving of raise them and transmit their vibrations to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, eight, strings, system, tones.
Chessboard
noun · 78% connection
The board used in the game of chess, having eight rows of alternate light and dark squares, eight in each row. See Checkerboard.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, eight, strings, system, tones.
Crowd
noun · 78% connection
An ancient instrument of music with six strings; a kind of violin, being the oldest known stringed instrument played with a bow.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, eight, strings, system, tones.
Decachordon
noun · 78% connection
An ancient Greek musical instrument of ten strings, resembling the harp.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, eight, strings, system, tones.
Diatonic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to the scale of eight tones, the eighth of which is the octave of the first.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, eight, strings, system, tones.
Eighth
noun · 78% connection
The quotient of a unit divided by eight; one of eight equal parts; an eighth part.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, eight, strings, system, tones.
Essential
adjective · 78% connection
Necessary; indispensable; -- said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, eight, strings, system, tones.
Guitar
noun · 78% connection
A stringed instrument of music resembling the lute or the violin, but larger, and having six strings, three of silk covered with silve…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, eight, strings, system, tones.
Harmonics
noun · 78% connection
Secondary and less distinct tones which accompany any principal, and apparently simple, tone, as the octave, the twelfth, the fifteent…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, eight, strings, system, tones.
Harp
noun · 78% connection
A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, eight, strings, system, tones.
Harpsichord
noun · 78% connection
A harp-shaped instrument of music set horizontally on legs, like the grand piano, with strings of wire, played by the fingers, by mean…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, eight, strings, system, tones.
Hurdy-gurdy
noun · 78% connection
A stringled instrument, lutelike in shape, in which the sound is produced by the friction of a wheel turned by a crank at the end, ins…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, eight, strings, system, tones.
Key
noun · 78% connection
A family of tones whose regular members are called diatonic tones, and named key tone (or tonic) or one (or eight), mediant or three,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, eight, strings, system, tones.
kin
noun · 78% connection
A primitive Chinese instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, eight, strings, system, tones.
Knot
noun · 78% connection
A nautical mile, or 6080.27 feet; as, when a ship goes eight miles an hour, her speed is said to be eight knots.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, eight, strings, system, tones.
Kussier
noun · 78% connection
(Mus.) A Turkish instrument of music, with a hollow body covered with skin, over which five strings are stretched.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: instrument, eight, strings, system, tones.
