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"Stringed instrument" Quotes from Famous Books

... Some years ago, a twelve-stringed instrument was contrived by a very ingenious musician, by whom it was aptly entitled the "Harp of Aeolus," because, being properly applied to a stream of air, it produces a wild irregular variety of harmonious sounds, ...

— The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom, Complete • Tobias Smollett

... Bosnia, who had come on a speculation to Cettigna. A barren profession his, where fashions remain the same summer and winter, and a suit lasts till it drops off. He was an accomplished musician, as well, on the one-stringed instrument; boasted of a white pocket-handkerchief, and his Italian, added to our Servian, made up about twelve words in common; so that the evening passed very sociably, and we retired to rest full of hope for the morrow. But when that morrow ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 • Various

... A stringed instrument from which sound is drawn by the passing of the wind over its strings. It was named for AEolus, the god of the winds, in ...

— Essays • Ralph Waldo Emerson

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