plucked string instrument

A plucked string instrument is a string instrument which has its tensioned strings plucked (as opposed to rubbed with a bow or hit) to produce sound. Examples include guitars, banjos, harps, lyres, and (although a stretch) harpsichords.

This tag implicates string_instrument (learn more).

The following tags implicate this tag: banjo_(instrument), guitar, harp, lute, lyre, shamisen, sitar, zither_(musical_instrument) (learn more).

Posts (view all)

Blacklisted

Nobody here but us chickens!