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Finally Instrument With Fret About To Produce This Sound Crossword Clue

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We've checked our database and believe the answer is TWANG which was last seen in the The Guardian Cryptic crossword.
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noun

• a sharp vibrating sound (as of a plucked string)

• exaggerated nasality in speech (as in some regional dialects)

verb

• cause to sound with a twang

• sound with a twang

• twitch or throb with pain

• pluck (strings of an instrument)

• pronounce with a nasal twang

33%9 Played by sliding a finger along the fret of a stringed instrument
noun

• Either a continuous sliding from one pitch to another ("true" glissando), or an incidental scale played while moving from one melodic note to another ("effective" glissando).

• A method of playing an electric guitar in which a metal bar is held at right angles across the strings and rapidly moved up and down, creating a smooth, lush sound.

33%9 Musical instrument with a movable fret
noun

• A musical instrument for experimenting with the mathematical relations of musical sounds, consisting of a single string stretched between two bridges, one or both of which can be moved, and which stand upon a graduated rule for the purpose of changing and measuring the length of the part of the string between them.

• A stringed instrument with only one string.

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The Guardian Cryptic01 Sep 2000 Across 9
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