string instruments

Some string instruments are mainly plucked, such as the harp and the electric bass. In the Hornbostel–Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification, used in organology, string instruments are called chordophones. Other examples include the sitar, rebab, banjo, mandolin, ukulele, and bouzouki.

String Instruments

• Autoharp. A strummed instrument with strings stretched across a resonating box.
• Banjo. A stringed instrument in the guitar family with a long neck, five strings and a round body like a tambourine with an open back.
• Biwa.
• Cello.
• Double Bass.
• Dulcimer.
• Fiddle.
• Guitar.

The string instrument's bodies are hollow inside to allow the sound of the vibrating strings to resonate. The musician plays the instrument by drawing a bow across the strings, making them vibrate, and thus produce a sound that is again amplified by the instrument's hollow body.

As a teenager he won national string instrument championships for his virtuoso playing of the guitar and mandolin as well as the fiddle.

(a piece of) strong, thin rope made by twisting very thin threads together, used for fastening and tying things: a package tied with string.

A string is generally considered as a data type and is often implemented as an array data structure of bytes (or words) that stores a sequence of elements, typically characters, using some character encoding. String may also denote more general arrays or other sequence (or list) data types and structures.

Five Things You May Not Know About String Instruments

• Violins Come in Seven Standard Sizes.
• Antique Violins Often Need to Have Longer Necks Grafted On.
• The Bass is the Only String Instrument Not in the Violin Family.
• String Instruments are Surprisingly Resistant to Temperature Variations …

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1. : a device used to produce music. 2. : a means of getting something done. curiosity is an instrument of discovery.

A C++ string is an object of the class string , which is defined in the header file <string> and which is in the standard namespace. The string class has several constructors that may be called (explicitly or implicitly) to create a string object.

: resembling a string (as in shape or tone)

Strings are called "strings" because they are made up of a sequence, or string, of characters. So, since the String datatype is a sequence of characters/symbols, it rather fits the definition.