plectron
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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 Glover, T. R. (Terrot Reaveley)
The plectra nearest the keyboard points the same way whether the jack is upside down or not.
From Italian Harpsichord-Building in the 16th and 17th Centuries by Shortridge, John D.
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 Shortridge, John D.
It is made of seven or eight hard- wood slats, pinned with bamboo tacks to transverse banana trunks lying on the ground: like the grande caisse, it is played upon with sticks, plectra like tent-pegs.
From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Each of these jacks has two plectra, one pointing to the right and one to the left.
From Italian Harpsichord-Building in the 16th and 17th Centuries by Shortridge, John D.
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 Saint-George, Henry
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