The classical guitar ( also called classic guitar, Spanish guitar, nylon-string guitar or concert guitar ) is a 6-stringed plucked string instrument from the family of instruments called chordophones.

" Harpsichord " designates the whole family of similar plucked keyboard instruments, including the smaller virginals, muselar, and spinet.

A kantele ( pronounced in Finnish or harppu in Sami ) is a traditional plucked string instrument of the zither family native to Finland and Karelia.

Lute can refer generally to any plucked string instrument with a neck ( either fretted or unfretted ) and a deep round back, or more specifically to an instrument from the family of European lutes.

A mandolin () is a musical instrument in the lute family ( plucked, or strummed ).

The viol family is related to and descends primarily from the Renaissance vihuela, a plucked instrument that preceded the guitar.

Illustration from Sebastian Virdung's ( German ) 1511 treatise Musica Getutsch, showing the lute family — plucked and bowed.

The polka was also a further source of inspiration for the Strauss family in Vienna when Johann II and Josef Strauss wrote one for plucked string instruments ( pizzicato ) only, the well-known ' Pizzicato polka '.

It is sometimes referred to as the saz ( from the Persian, meaning a kit or set ), although the term " saz " actually refers to a family of plucked string instruments, long-necked lutes used in Ottoman classical music, Turkish folk music, Azeri music, Kurdish music, Assyrian music, and in parts of Syria, Iraq and the Balkan countries.

A fellow student plucked a flower from the tree and used it to explain how the grand locust is a member of the pea family, related to the straggling pea plant.

The baryton is a bowed string instrument in the viol family, distinguished by an extra set of plucked strings.

The kanklės ( pronounced ) is a Lithuanian plucked string musical instrument ( chordophone ), of the zither family.

During the exam, Gon meets and eventually befriends three of the other applicants: Kurapika, the last remaining member of the Kurta clan whom wishes to become a Hunter in order to avenge his clan and recover their scarlet-glowing eyes, plucked from their corpses by a band of thieves known as the Phantom Troupe ; Leorio, a prospective physician who, in order to pay for medical school, desires the financial benefits Hunters receive ; and Killua Zoldyck, another twelve-year-old boy who has left his former life as a member of the world's most notorious assassin family.

The guqin ( simplified / traditional: 古琴 ; pinyin: gǔqín ; Wades-Giles ku-ch ' in ; ; literally " ancient stringed instrument ") is a plucked seven-string Chinese musical instrument of the zither family.

In addition to the plucked ruan instruments mentioned above, there also exist a family of bowed string instruments called lāruǎn and dalaruan ( literally " bowed ruan " and " large bowed ruan ").

Guitjo is a plucked string instrument in the guitar or banjo family.

The mandocello () is a plucked string instrument of the mandolin family.

) Yueqin is the loudest member of the plucked lute family of Chinese instruments ; one instrument can easily be heard over a full Chinese orchestra.

A contrabass guitar is a low-register plucked string instrument in the guitar family with six strings.

It is likely that a combination of influences led to the creation of the guitar ; plucked instruments from across the Mediterranean and Europe were well known in Iberia since antiquity.

Within two or three decades, this led to the evolution of an entirely new and dedicated bowed string instrument that retained many of the features of the original plucked vihuela: a flat back, sharp waist-cuts, frets, thin ribs ( initially ), and an identical tuning — hence its original name, vihuela de arco ; arco is Spanish for " bow ".

It was then perceived that the psalterium in which the strings were plucked, and the dulcimer in which they were struck, when provided with keyboards, gave rise to two distinct families of instruments, differing essentially in tone quality, in technique and in capabilities: the evolution of the psalterium stopped at the harpsichord, that of the dulcimer gave us the pianoforte.

Clearly, Lyon & Healy was making plucked string instruments in the 1880s, with Washburn ( guitars, mandolins, banjos, and zithers ) being their premier line.

Medieval lutes were 4-or 5-course instruments, plucked using a quill as a plectrum.

Medieval music uses many plucked string instruments like the lute, mandore, gittern and psaltery.

It is through contemporary tablatures for various plucked instruments that we have gained much information about what accidentals were performed by the original practitioners.

The earliest stringed instruments were mostly plucked ( e. g. the Greek lyre ).

With these keyboard instruments too, the strings are occasionally plucked or bowed by hand.

Other keyed string instruments, small enough for a strolling musician to play, include the plucked autoharp, the bowed nyckelharpa, and the hurdy gurdy, which is played by cranking a rosined wheel.

The length of the string from nut to bridge on bowed or plucked instruments ultimately determines the distance between different notes on the instrument.

Similar timbral distinctions are also possible with plucked string instruments by selecting an appropriate plucking point, although the difference is perhaps more subtle.

Some instruments are employed with sympathetic strings, additional strings not meant to be plucked.

The scheme was later expanded by Martin Agricola, who distinguished plucked string instruments, such as guitars, from bowed string instruments, such as violins.

Classical musicians today do not always maintain this division ( although plucked strings are grouped separately from bowed strings in sheet music ), but there is a distinction made between wind instruments with a reed ( woodwind instruments ) and wind instruments where the air is set in motion directly by the lips ( brass instruments ).

For this reason, keyboard instruments are often regarded as inhabiting a category of their own, including all instruments played by a keyboard, whether they have struck strings ( like the piano ), plucked strings ( like the harpsichord ) or no strings at all ( like the celesta ).

Joseph Majer ( 1732 ) called them pneumatica, pulsatilia ( percussives including plucked instruments ), and fidicina ( from fidula, fiddle ) ( for bowed instruments );

With Zambrano moving to the MetroStars in 2000, he plucked Perez again, this time in the fourth round of the 2000 MLS SuperDraft.

Methods to identify if feathers have been plucked or have been shed naturally have been developed as Indian law allows the collection of feathers that have been shed.

The Onions play a vital role in Pikmin reproduction: When any food, such as prey or pellets, is delivered to an Onion, it propagates seeds, which grow and are then plucked from the ground as fully developed Pikmin.

The Seni rebab is a plucked string instrument said to have been developed by, and to have taken its name from, the notable musician Tansen in the time of the emperor Akbar the Great.

The Hobbit may be read as Tolkien's parable of World War I with the hero being plucked from his rural home and thrown into a far-off war where traditional types of heroism are shown to be futile.

Euperipatoides kanangrensis, enrolled due to sudden exposure ( i. e. being plucked from its log into the desiccating daylight )

During this period, most of the hair was braided and hidden under wimples, veils or couvrechefs, and in the later half of the 15th century and on into the 16th century, wealthy women frequently plucked out hair at their temples and the napes of their necks, or used depilatory cream to remove it, if it would otherwise be visible at the edges of their hair coverings.

Some of their famous sound effects included a rapid bongo drum take used for when a character's feet were scrambling before taking off, a " KaBONG " sound produced on a guitar for when Quick Draw McGraw, in his Zorro-style " El Kabong " crime fighting guise, would smash a guitar over a villain's head, the sound of a car's brake drum combined with a bulb horn for when Fred Flintstone would drop his bowling ball onto his foot, an automobile's tires squealing with a " skipping " effect added for when someone would slide to a sudden stop, a bass-drum-and-cymbal combination called the " Boom Crash " for when someone would fall down or smack into an object, a xylophone being struck rapidly on the same note for a tip-toeing effect, and a violin being plucked with the tuning pegs being raised to simulate something like pulling out a cat's whisker.

Meanwhile, films such as The Big Lebowski, which plucked actor Sam Elliott out of the Old West and into a Los Angeles bowling alley, and Midnight Cowboy, about a Southern-boy-turned-gigolo in New York, transplanted Western themes into modern settings for both purposes of parody and homage.

The finest ears are plucked out of it and made into a wreath, which, twined with flowers, is carried on her head by the prettiest girl of the village to the farmer or squire, while the Corn-mother is laid down in the barn to keep off the mice.

And when the lead was torn off and cast down into the church and the tombs in the church were all broken ( for in most abbeys various noblemen and women were buried, and in some kings, but their tombs were no more regarded than those of lesser persons, for to what end should they stand when the church over them was not spared for their cause ) and all things of value were spoiled, plucked away or utterly defaced, those who cast the lead into fodders plucked up all the seats in the choir where the monks sat when they said service.

The slap sound comes from the combination of two elements: striking the string with the side of the bony joint in the middle of the thumb, a harder surface than the pads of the fingers ( used in plucked fingering ); and intentionally allowing the vibrating string to come into contact with the metal frets, producing a " toney " or buzzing sound that is normally avoided in plucked / fingered bass.

" went to the Temple to destroy it, and plucked down the houses, tooke off the tyles of the other buildings left ; went to the churche, tooke out all the bookes and remembrances that were m the hatches of the prentices of the law, carried them into the high street, and there burnt them.

When Plato gave Socrates ' definition of man as " featherless bipeds " and was much praised for the definition, Diogenes plucked a chicken and brought it into Plato's Academy, saying, " Behold!

Meanwhile, a number of survivors had been plucked from the sea by small boats ; they were sailors who had been blown into the water by the impact of the blast, and who had clung to wreckage for hours.

In the Christian era, a psaltery consisting of a soundboard with several pre-tuned strings that are usually plucked came into use.

All these therefore ( because of necessity, and yet willingly, as they which are under the slavery of sin, return to their vomit, and fall away from faith ) are plucked up by the roots, to be cast into the fire.

While hair transplantation dates back to the 1950s, and plucked human hair follicle cell culture in vitro to the early 1980s, it was not until 1995 when hair transplantation using individual follicular units was introduced into medical literature.

In hair multiplication, plucked hair or hair fragments, which contain germinative cells, are implanted into the scalp with the hopes that they develop into new hair-producing follicles.

The craft of making string instruments, or lutherie, is commonly divided into two main categories: makers of stringed instruments that are plucked or strummed and makers of stringed instruments that are bowed.

All of the victims found had been sodomized and most victims found bore evidence of sexual torture: pubic hairs had been plucked out, genitals had been chewed, objects had been inserted into their rectums, and glass rods had been shoved into their urethrae and smashed.