Sentence examples for bowed stringed instrument from inspiring English sources

Bowed stringed instrument of painted wood in the form of a peacock.

Yet the voices that he coaxed from this squat, bowed, stringed instrument were divine.

A sustained melody is played either by the bamboo flute (suling) or by a bowed stringed instrument (rebab) or is sung the last especially when, as often occurs, the gamelan is used to accompany theatrical performances, or wayang.

The first of these, the early bowed stringed instrument known as the Byzantine lyra, would come to be called the lira da braccio, in Venice, where is it considered by many to have been the predecessor of the contemporary violin, which later flourished there.

Bowed stringed instruments take so long to mature that rival instruments may already exist.

Violin, byname fiddle, bowed, stringed musical instrument that evolved during the Renaissance from earlier bowed instruments: the medieval fiddle; its 16th-century Italian offshoot, the lira da braccio; and the rebec.

Baryton, bowed, stringed musical instrument that enjoyed a certain vogue in the 18th century.

Rebec, bowed, stringed musical instrument of European medieval and early Renaissance music.

Viol, also called viola da gamba, bowed, stringed musical instrument used principally in chamber music of the 16th to the 18th century.

Gusla, also spelled Gusle, Bulgarian bowed, stringed musical instrument of the Balkans, with a round wooden back, a skin belly, and one horsehair string (or, rarely, two) secured at the top of the neck by a rear tuning peg.

Mr. Colvig and Mr. Harrison built several other gamelans, as well as harps, bowed stringed instruments and percussion instruments.