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  1. n. music Any stringed musical instrument.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Music) a stringed instrument of the group including harps, lutes, lyres, and zithers.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a stringed instrument of the group including harps, lutes, lyres, and zithers

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  • “In the mid-'70s Dabiré studied abroad in Denmark and toured Italy, where he would learn the chordophone and Indian percussion instruments.”

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  • “The ngoni is a plucked chordophone that looks like a ukulele but sounds like a banjo.”

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  • “Jack Johnson, and Rilo Kiley have been caught strumming the four-string chordophone in front of large audiences.”

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  • “The guitar is a musical instrument of the chordophone family”

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  • chained_bear "Lutes and guitars are cousins, members of the family called chordophones, instruments with vibrating strings. The earliest ancestor of this family, and therefore of all stringed instruments, was a musical hunting bow, first depicted in a Paleolithic cave painting at Trois Frères, in southern France, dating from 15,000 B.C. In this image a priest or sorcerer dressed in a bison skin holds a bow to the mouth of his mask, using his own skull as a resonator. The musical hunting bow survives as the okongo or kora, used during rituals in sub-Saharan Africa. Similar musical bows are found in South America and among Native Americans."
    —Glenn Kurtz, Practicing: A Musician's Return to Music (New York: Vintage Books, 2007), 107 Nov 3, 2008

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