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  2. List of string instruments - Wikipedia

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    Apkhyarta (Abkhazia) Arpeggione. Banhu (China) Baryton. Bazantar (United States) Boweddulcimer. Bowedguitar. Bowedpsaltery (United States) Byzaanchy (Tuva)

  3. A picture is worth a thousand words - Wikipedia

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    A picture is worth a thousand words. 1913 newspaper advertisement. Meaning. Seeing something is better for learning than having it described. Original form. "A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed." Coined by. Henrik Ibsen. " A picture is worth a thousand words " is an adage in multiple languages meaning that ...

  4. Anagram - Wikipedia

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    Anagram. An anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of a different word or phrase, typically using all the original letters exactly once. [1] For example, the word anagram itself can be rearranged into the nonsense phrase "nag a ram"; which is an Easter egg suggestion in Google after searching for the word "anagram".

  5. Harpsichord - Wikipedia

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    A harpsichord (Italian: clavicembalo, French: clavecin, German: Cembalo; Spanish: clavecín, Portuguese: cravo, Russian: клавеси́н (tr. klavesín or klavesin), Dutch: klavecimbel, Polish: klawesyn) is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. This activates a row of levers that turn a trigger mechanism that plucks one or more ...

  6. Glossary of music terminology - Wikipedia

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    One or "a" (indefinite article), as exemplified in the following entries un poco or un peu (Fr.) A little una corda One string (i.e., in piano music, depressing the soft pedal, which alters and reduces the volume of the sound). For most notes in modern pianos, this results in the hammer striking two strings rather than three.

  7. Ektara - Wikipedia

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    One-string gopichand drum-zither. Can be plucked or drummed. Tuntina, missing drumhead and string. The ektara (Bengali: একতারা, Hindi: एकतारा, Urdu: اِک تارا, Nepali: एकतारे, Punjabi: ਇਕ ਤਾਰਾ, Tamil: எக்டரா; literally 'one-string', also called actara, iktar, ektar, Sindhi ...

  8. Staff (music) - Wikipedia

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    Staff (music) In Western musical notation, the staff[1][2] (UK also stave; [3] plural: staffs or staves), [1] also occasionally referred to as a pentagram, [4][5][6] is a set of five horizontal lines and four spaces that each represent a different musical pitch or in the case of a percussion staff, different percussion instruments.

  9. Character (computing) - Wikipedia

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    In computer and machine-based telecommunications terminology, a character is a unit of information that roughly corresponds to a grapheme, grapheme-like unit, or symbol, such as in an alphabet or syllabary in the written form of a natural language. [1] Examples of characters include letters, numerical digits, common punctuation marks (such as ...