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Lyre

Musical equipment; String instruments

A plucked stringed musical instrument having strings fixed between a crossbar supported by the arms; specially, such an ancient Greek instrument with outwardly curved arms, usu.payed with a plectrum ...

Erhu

Musical equipment; String instruments

A two-stringed bowed musical instrument, more specifically a spike fiddle, which may also be called a "southern fiddle", and sometimes known in the Western world as the "Chinese violin" or a "Chinese ...

Pipa

Musical equipment; String instruments

A four-stringed Chinese musical instrument, belonging to the plucked category of instruments.

Elegance

Musical equipment; String instruments

The quality of being graceful and stylish in appearance or manner; style.

Zheng

Musical equipment; String instruments

A 21-or 25-stringed plucked instrument in some ways similar to the zither.

Harp

Musical equipment; String instruments

A stringed musical instrument, which, in its usual form, consists of a framework of wood fitted with a series of strings of definite lengths which are played with the fingers, (or, in some earlier ...