CHORDOPHONES Synonyms

• a large stringed instrument; seated player holds it upright while playing

• a stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking

• a chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers

• a pair of curved vertical supports for a lampshade

• a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole

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• play the harp

• a stringed instrument related to the lute, usually played with a plectrum

• a stringed instrument of India; has a long neck and movable frets; has 6 or 7 metal strings for playing and usually 13 resonating strings

• a small guitar having four strings

• a bowed stringed instrument slightly larger than a violin, tuned a fifth lower

• any of the numerous plants of the genus Viola

• large genus of flowering herbs of temperate regions

• bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow

• a musical instrument in which taut strings provide the source of sound