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- An instrument consisting of a gently waisted wooden resonance box of various sizes, with a sound hole in the middle of the upper third of the soundboard, a neck and headstock at the top end, a bridge at the bottom end and usually a set of four to six strings strung from the bridge to the tuning key-adjusted pegheads on the headstock. Used to produce sounds and chords by plucking the strings with the fingers or a plectrum, thereby causing them to vibrate.
- Definition source(s)
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- Parks Canada Descriptive and Visual Dictionary of Objects
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- Term (International)
- Guitar
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- Term (International)
- Guitare
- Term gender (International)
- f.
- Date created
- 2010-01-01
- Date updated
- 2021-05-14
- Parks Canada code(s)
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- 06-00059
- Nomenclature URI
- https://www.nomenclature.info/nom/10792
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