Sentence examples for wire strings from inspiring English sources

A 17th-century violin with five wire strings was also called viola d'amore.

So in the nineteenth century, technological advances, wire strings, more tension, higher bridge, and to — well, also the fingerboard was extended.

The four principal wire strings run over the top of the bridge, and fourteen sympathetic strings run through holes drilled in a row through the middle of the bridge.

Piano, also called pianoforte, French piano or pianoforte, German Klavier, a keyboard musical instrument having wire strings that sound when struck by felt-covered hammers operated from a keyboard.

In addition to seven gut strings, which are played with a bow, it includes a group of wire strings (the number varies), which vibrate sympathetically and are sometimes plucked with the thumb to create a zitherlike sound.

A 1693 Stradivarius violin, restored to its original configuration, sits next to a 1694 Strad adapted -- like most such old instruments -- to modern use, with a lengthened fingerboard, a longer neck at a different angle, wire strings, a chin rest and a larger bridge.

Ever more cameras, fences and walls are going up, with barbed wire strung along the top.

In addition to ceramics, her sculpted materials tend toward cheap: paper, wire, string, plastic cups.

A number of motorcyclists have been decapitated by barbed wire strung across residential streets to hinder the security forces.

He has been practicing on a high wire strung across a casino parking lot in Niagara Falls, N.Y.

Even in California, I grew up with images of the trenches and of barbed wire strung across muddy fields.