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  2. Tortoiseshell - Wikipedia

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    Tortoiseshell was widely used from ancient times in the North and in Asia, until the trade was banned in 2014. It was used, normally in thin slices or pieces, in the manufacture of a wide variety of items such as combs, small boxes and frames, inlays in furniture (known as Boulle work carried out by André-Charles Boulle), and other items: frames for spectacles, guitar picks and knitting needles.

  3. Guitar pick - Wikipedia

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    V-Picks are the first noted company to make acrylic guitar picks, dating as early as 1980, and are the only guitar pick manufacturer that heat tempers acrylic picks. Polyamide-imide is a material often used in aerospace applications as replacement for metallic alloys. Picks made of this material have low friction on the strings and high durability.

  4. Acacia koa - Wikipedia

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    The American Pop singer Taylor Swift with a Taylor acoustic guitar made of Acacia koa wood. The koa's trunk was used by ancient Hawaiians to build waʻa (dugout outrigger canoes) [13] and papa heʻe nalu . Only paipo , kikoʻo, and alaia surfboards were made from koa, however; olo, the longest surfboards, were made from the lighter and more ...

  5. Gibson Hummingbird - Wikipedia

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    The Hummingbird Custom KOA model is a custom model, with back and sides constructed from highly figured koa wood. It has gold Grover mother of pearl keystone tuners, a custom in-flight hummingbirds peghead logo and a hummingbird floral tortoiseshell pickguard, all expressed in genuine abalone and mother-of-pearl.

  6. List of national instruments (music) - Wikipedia

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    3-foot-long (0.91 m) harp, plucked with both hands, made of wood and goat or antelope skin 321.21-5: Khoikhoi: goura [81] Single stringed instrument, blown rather than plucked or strummed, with the string attached to a coconut shell resonator and with a tension noose wrapped around the string to adjust the pitch 311.121.222 — Korea: gayageum ...

  7. D'Andrea Picks - Wikipedia

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    D'Andrea USA is a manufacturer of plastic instrument picks. Luigi D'Andrea made the first plastic guitar pick out of celluloid in 1922. In October 2007, D'Andrea celebrated 85 years of designing and manufacturing professional guitar picks and music accessories, making it one of the oldest companies in the musical accessory industry.It's also the first company to make custom guitar plectra.

  8. Pickguard - Wikipedia

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    The pick does not normally contact that part of the guitar when used correctly. As well as serving a practical purpose, the pickguard may also be used for decoration and is often made in a contrasting color to that of the guitar body (popular variants are white pickguards on darker guitars and black pickguards on lighter guitars).

  9. Tonewood - Wikipedia

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    Tonewood refers to specific wood varieties used for woodwind or acoustic stringed instruments. The word implies that certain species exhibit qualities that enhance acoustic properties of the instruments, but other properties of the wood such as aesthetics and availability have always been considered in the selection of wood for musical instruments.

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