stringed

The history of counting is littered with an array of methods for keeping track of numbers, from various forms of finger counting to the stringed recording devices called quipus, or khipus, used in the Inca Empire in the 1400s and 1500s.

By the 19th and 20th centuries, the guitar (and related stringed instruments) also acquired certain social meanings.

Traditionally worn by sixth-graders and jocks and those who lounge aggressively, the draw-stringed trouser is defiantly apathetic.

I played first and last, and the quartette in between was performed by the stringed instruments alone.