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Ancient
adjective · 78% connection
belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire; "ancient history"; "anci…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ancient, instrument, music, five, strings.
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: ancient, instrument, music, five, strings.
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: ancient, instrument, music, five, strings.
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: ancient, instrument, music, five, strings.
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: ancient, instrument, music, five, strings.
Decachordon
noun · 78% connection
An ancient Greek musical instrument of ten strings, resembling the harp.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ancient, instrument, music, five, strings.
Drum
noun · 78% connection
An instrument of percussion, consisting either of a hollow cylinder, over each end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ancient, instrument, music, five, strings.
Fingering
noun · 78% connection
The manner of using the fingers in playing or striking the keys of an instrument of music; movement or management of the fingers in pl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ancient, instrument, music, five, strings.
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: ancient, instrument, music, five, strings.
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: ancient, instrument, music, five, strings.
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: ancient, instrument, music, five, strings.
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: ancient, instrument, music, five, strings.
Instrumental
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal mu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ancient, instrument, music, five, strings.
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: ancient, instrument, music, five, strings.
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: ancient, instrument, music, five, strings.
Lute
noun · 78% connection
A stringed instrument formerly much in use. It consists of four parts, namely, the table or front, the body, having nine or ten ribs o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ancient, instrument, music, five, strings.
Musical
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to music; having the qualities of music; or the power of producing music; devoted to music; melodious; harmonious; as…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ancient, instrument, music, five, strings.
Octachord
noun · 78% connection
An instrument of eight strings; a system of eight tones.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: ancient, instrument, music, five, strings.
