Sentence examples for metal strings from inspiring English sources

The standard banjo has five metal strings.

The cimbalom has about 125 metal strings, with 3 to 5 strings per note.

The earliest banjos had four gut strings; later, from five to nine metal strings were used.

Of the 25 metal strings, 10 are played, the rest are sympathetic.

They are normally plucked with the fingers, although metal strings are also plucked with a leather plectrum.

The Tomasini work was a zesty entertainment, with a rustic finale in which the baryton's metal strings appeared briefly.

"He shaped a metal string into a flower and made me a ring," Mrs. Jakob said.

When a key is pressed, the corresponding metal string presses down onto the wheel, creating a sound similar to a cello.

When Bodine stopped bouncing, all that was left of his truck was a mangled cage, with sheet metal strung all over the track.

On the plaza out front, con artists perform card tricks, folk poets known as repentistas and cordelistas recite or sing their verses, and practitioners of capoeira perform their graceful mixture of dance and martial arts to the twang of the single metal string of the gourd-like berimbau.

The introduction of an electron-withdrawing pyrimidine ring to the spacer ligand retarded the oxidation of the pentanickel metal string and stabilized the complex.