In some cases this is of no consequence, as, for example, when we hold the lyre in the left hand, and the plectrum in the right, but it is downright folly to make the same distinction in other cases.
Then as the water from the broken vase Gushes, or on the mailed horseman falls The anvil din of steel, as on the silk The slash of rending, so upon the strings Her plectrum fell.
And then Apollo with the plectrum strook 670 The chords, and from beneath his hands a crash Of mighty sounds rushed up, whose music shook The soul with sweetness, and like an adept His sweeter voice a just accordance kept.
The tone was thin and delicate, but as the plectrum did not remain in contact with the string, the vibration continued longer than in the clavier.
In the cembalo there was a wooden jack resting upon the end of the keys, and upon this jack a little plectrum made of raven's quill, which had to be frequently renewed.
When the key was pressed, the jack rose and the plectrum snapped the wire.
Bandurria; Spanish, eighteenth century; played with a plectrum usually made of tortoise-shell.
Its wire-strings are twanged with a plectrum made of wood and glass.
His lyre shall be jocose, hisplectrum of the lighter sort.
These instruments all descended from the ancient lyre, the only difference being that instead of causing the strings to vibrate by means of a plectrum held in the hand, the plectrum was set in motion by the mechanism of the claves or keys.
They are as full as they are silent, and wait for my plectrum to stir the strings of their lyre.
The little dwarf was sitting cross-legged, and was playing a plectrum instrument.
His head was huge, his back was like a bow, and his plectrum arm bent into an S curve, which curled round his instrument as though it had been bent to fit.
Zélie brought the instrument case, unlocked it, and handed up a crook-necked mandolin and its small ivory plectrum to her tyrant.
Come hither, gentle Swiss," said the dwarf striking the plectrum into her mandolin strings, "and I will reward thee for thy back and all thy courtly services.
An angel plays the cymbals, and another with a plectrum strikes a metal disc.
The instruments she could play were the organ, the guitar, the syrinx or panpipe, and the lyre, which she struck not with her fingers, but a plectrum represented beside it.
When played as a solo instrument, a plectrum may be used with good effect to produce rapid scale and arpeggio passages, or to produce the tremolo or sustained notes as on the mandoline (q.
He plays as he walks, using both hands, a plectrum being in the right.
As long as the strings were plucked by fingers or plectrum the large pear-shaped instrument may be identified as the archetype of the lute.
The Arab instrument, with convex sound-body, pointing to the resonance board or membrane having been originally placed upon a gourd, was strung with silk and played with a plectrum of shell or quill.
It was their constant practice to represent the strings as being damped by the fingers of the left hand of the player, after having been struck by the plectrum which he held in the right hand.
He breathed deeply, trying to clear his mind, then slipped the wire plectrum over his finger and gently stroked the lower sympathetic strings once, twice, to establish the mood.
Using a wire plectrum attached to his right forefinger, he seemed to be waving sounds from the air above the fingerboard.
After its appearance was agreed upon, the instrumentalist gingerly plucked a gut string with the wire plectrum attached to his forefinger and studied its sound with a distant expression.
There in a vast cave Great Chiron, teacher of the savage child, Struck with hisplectrum from the sounding strings Wild music, stirred the boy with songs of war.
That thy father did not fear, 320 I own; amid the slaughter of the Greeks And burning of the fleet, forgetting war, He idly lay, and with his plectrum touched Lightly his lyre.
When the harpsichord key is pressed, a wooden jack is raised so that a quill or leather plectrum inserted into the jack tongue plucks the string.
When the key is released, the jack falls back into place, the pivoted tongue allowing the plectrum to pass the string without plucking it.
These questions are still undecided; but opinions preponderate greatly in favor of the belief that the plectrum was an implement of percussion, and therefore not at all a bow, in our sense.
The autumn moon shone silver athwart the tide, as with a sigh the musician thrust herplectrum beneath the strings and quietly prepared to take leave.
Then, as bursts the water from the broken vase, as clash the arms upon the mailed horseman, so fell the plectrum once more upon the strings with a slash like the rent of silk.
The plectrum was held in the right hand, with elbow outstretched and palm bent inwards, and the strings were plucked with the straightened fingers of the left hand.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plectrum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
