plectron
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plectra
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We do not make Mantic either godless or void of reason, when we give it the soul of man as its material, and the enthusiastic spirit and exhalation as its tool or plectron.
From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover
To paraphrase a popular expression, "fingers were made before plectra," the latter being an "improvement" on nature's contrivance.
From The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use 'The Strad' Library, No. III. by Henry Saint-George
The plectra, perhaps not original, are of leather.
From Italian Harpsichord-Building in the 16th and 17th Centuries by John D. Shortridge
In the clavicytherium at the Smithsonian Institution the plectra nearest the keyboard points to the player's left.
From Italian Harpsichord-Building in the 16th and 17th Centuries by John D. Shortridge
Master Jones, who roared as loud as ten thousand men when he was hurt; or as you vill roar if I catch you calling him Mars again?—Ares, who covered seven plectra of ground?
From The Caxtons — Complete by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
These erected scales act on the string like so many infinitesimal plectra and thus produce in perfection the sustained sound attempted in a grosser manner by the tremolo of the mandoline.
From The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use 'The Strad' Library, No. III. by Henry Saint-George
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