Sentence examples for had only one string from inspiring English sources

"Bogart had only one string on his bow.

They were both self-taught: Aston's first bass was home-made and had only one string, and his brother practised percussion using pots and tin cans.

MJ: Imagine you had a very cheap guitar, which had only one string, even though it only has one string, you can still make several different notes with that one string just by plucking it at higher and higher frequencies.

She told him that he could keep the instrument, which had only one string.

As with other lutes, fiddles may have only one string (the Tuareg imzhad) or nearly 40 (the sarangi); on the latter, most of the strings are not directly touched or sounded by the player but vibrate sympathetically when other strings are set into motion, thus giving a fuller resonance.

Its compass is only five octaves, F to F. So it — and it has only one string per key.

By the time he finished with No. K0862, it had 243 strings -- 75 of its 88 notes had three strings, five bass notes had two strings, and the eight lowest bass notes had only one.

In general, Italian harpsichords had only one keyboard with two rows of jacks and two strings tuned in unison or unison and octave.

It should be emphasized, however, that the harpsichord of the 16th 18th centuries normally had only one or two keyboards and only two or three sets of strings and jacks per note.

In contrast, the string has only one planar motion when the obstacle is present and two non-planar motions, either an oscillating orbit or a whirling orbit depending on the magnitude of the initial disturbance.

This gene has only one high-confidence association in the STRING database, with PLAU (plasminogen activator, urokinase), which itself has 10 high-confidence associations to other genes, none of which is related to type A muscular dystrophy-dystroglycanopathy.