All of these three instruments had strings of brass, with quill plectra attached to pieces of wood.
The plectranearest the keyboard points the same way whether the jack is upside down or not.
In the clavicytherium at the Smithsonian Institution the plectra nearest the keyboard points to the player's left.
The direction in which theplectra of each row of jacks should be pointing is not known.
Later 18th-century developments included a fourth register called peau de buffle (plectra of soft chamois-type leather) and knee levers to operate the registers.
This instrument is quilled with crow quill, the most common material used for plectra at that time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plectra" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
