Created by: abbeygrech
Number of Blossarys: 7
English (EN)Keyboard instrument with strings plucked mechanically - as distinct from the piano, in which the strings are struck, and from clavichord, where the process is again different.
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'.
Term historically meaning a kind if high-pitched wooden flute, usually without keys; but today's military 'drum and fife' band includes low-pitched flutes as well as high ones.
Woodwind instrument of oboe type, but standing a fifth lower than the oboe, and written as a transposing instrument a fifth higher than sounding.
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.
Percussion instruments of hollowed-out wooden surfaces rhythmically clicked together by the fingers of Spanish dancer; in the orchestra the clicking pieces of wood are often mounted for convenience ...
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.
By: abbeygrech