plectrum

[ UK /plˈɛktɹəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument
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How To Use plectrum In A Sentence

  • Tlie plior - niinx, or large lyre, dedicated to Apollo, and plaj-ed upon with an ivory instrument, called plectrum, seems, from certain very intricate and minute parts always recurring in its repre - sentations, to have been a very complicated structure. Costume of the ancients
  • I used to work in the music shop there and we'd supply the studios with microphones and leads sometimes and plectrums, lots of plectrums.
  • Ben strikes into song after song, the volume adjusted by only the slightest touch of his nimble plectrum, and the band just fall into place behind him and that breathy, to instantly soaring, vocal.
  • Those plectrums are a bit like a collection of musical bus tickets.
  • Ten of its twenty-five strings are played with a plectrum, while the others resonate.
  • Tiring of this, he took a plectrum and laid the side of his right hand across the bridge so that he could mute the strings and play 'sordo'. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
  • Remember that triangular thing called a plectrum that's supposed to be one of a user's choices for ways of input on the Unwired View
  • No, we'd probably still be meeting in town each Saturday afternoon half-deaf in our denims with pockets full of plectrums and heads full of cheap dope and impossible dreams.
  • All that is needed is an electric guitar, a plectrum, a good quality 20 ft lead and an enthusiasm to learn.
  • His fingers flew across the frets while I was sure the plectrum he was holding should have been worn to shreds as he played.
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