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bow²	a long, thin, straight piece of wood with hairs from horses stretched between the ends. It is used for playing the violin and other stringed instruments. [1/4 definitions]
fret³	one of the ridges set across the neck of a stringed instrument such as a guitar or lute to mark where the fingers should press the strings for each note.
guitar	a stringed instrument with a long neck and five, six, or twelve strings that are strummed or plucked.
lute	a stringed instrument that has a bent neck and a body shaped like a pear.
lyre	a stringed instrument of ancient Greece that is like a harp.
stringed instrument	any musical instrument that is sounded by bowing, plucking, or strumming the strings. Violins, guitars, and zithers are some stringed instruments.
zither	a stringed instrument that has a flat sound box and thirty or forty strings. Zithers are played by plucking the strings.

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