| bass1 |
the largest stringed instrument of the orchestra, having the lowest range of pitch and played with a bow; double bass. [1/5 definitions] |
| bluegrass |
country music of the southern United States typically played on stringed instruments and characterized by frequent improvisation. [1/2 definitions] |
| bouzouki |
a long-necked stringed musical instrument resembling a mandolin or lute. |
| bow2 |
a long, thin piece of wood with horsehairs stretched between the ends, used for playing the violin and other stringed instruments. [2/7 definitions] |
| cello |
a large four-stringed instrument of the violin family with a pitch lower than that of the viola but higher than that of the double bass; violoncello. |
| country music |
popular music that comes from the folk music of the southern or southwestern United States. It generally employs a variety of stringed instruments such as guitar and fiddle. |
| country-western |
popular music that comes from the folk music of the southern or southwestern United States. It generally employs vocals and a variety of stringed instruments such as guitar and fiddle; country and western; country music. [1/2 definitions] |
| double-stop |
to produce two notes simultaneously on a stringed instrument, such as the violin, by drawing the bow across two strings at once. [1/2 definitions] |
| fingerboard |
the portion of a violin, guitar, or other stringed instrument against which the player presses the strings. |
| fret3 |
one of the ridges set across the fingerboard of a stringed instrument, such as a guitar or lute, that is played by hand. [1/2 definitions] |
| guitar |
a stringed musical instrument with a large soundbox, a long fretted neck, and five, six, or twelve strings that are strummed or plucked. [1/2 definitions] |
| horsehead fiddle |
a Mongolian stringed instrument played with a bow, having a box-shaped body and a neck ending in a carving of a horse. |
| lute |
an ancient stringed instrument having a bent, fretted neck and a pear-shaped body. |
| luthier |
one who makes stringed instruments. |
| oud |
a stringed musical instrument that resembles a lute, used esp. in Africa and Asia. |
| peg |
a pin in the neck of a stringed musical instrument that may be turned to change the tension of a string. [1/5 definitions] |
| plectrum |
a small flexible piece of plastic or other material used to pluck a stringed musical instrument; pick. |
| rebec |
a pear-shaped, three-stringed musical instrument of the Middle Ages and Renaissance that is played with a bow. |
| rosin |
a translucent, yellow-brown, brittle residue of the distillation of turpentine from pine sap, used as a friction-increasing agent, as on the bows of certain stringed instruments, and in manufacturing varnish, inks, and soap. [1/3 definitions] |
| sarod |
a stringed musical instrument of India that resembles the lute. |
| soundbox |
the hollow main body of a stringed instrument such as a guitar or violin. |