Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Music) a stringed instrument of the group including harps, lutes, lyres, and zithers.
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- noun music Any
stringed musical instrument .
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- noun a stringed instrument of the group including harps, lutes, lyres, and zithers
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Examples
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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.
Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Sixty-Seven 2009
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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 ngoni is a plucked chordophone that looks like a ukulele but sounds like a banjo.
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The guitar is a musical instrument of the chordophone family
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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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Jack Johnson, and Rilo Kiley have been caught strumming the four-string chordophone in front of large audiences.
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The ngoni is a plucked chordophone that looks like a ukulele but sounds like a banjo.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local Jason Blevins 2010
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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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Jack Johnson, and Rilo Kiley have been caught strumming the four-string chordophone in front of large audiences.
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Jack Johnson, and Rilo Kiley have been caught strumming the four-string chordophone in front of large audiences.
chained_bear commented on the word chordophone
"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
November 3, 2008
qms commented on the word chordophone
By trumpets woodwinds and trombone
A great deal of music is blown,
And riding those gusts
In dartings and thrusts
Are flights of the sweet chordophone.
July 30, 2018