stringed

[ stringd ]

adjective

1. fitted with strings (often used in combination):

   a five-stringed banjo.

2. produced or sounded by strings:

   stringed melodies.

stringed

/ strɪŋd /

adjective

1. (of musical instruments) having or provided with strings

Word History and Origins

Origin of stringed¹

before 1000; Middle English; Old English strængede; string, -ed ³

Example Sentences

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.

From Science News

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

One of the musicians played upon two small drums, the other two on four-stringed instruments, similar to our violins.

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It appears then that two kinds of seven-stringed scales were known, at least by tradition: viz.

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This must have been true a fortiori of the older seven-stringed scale, in which the Mes united the two conjunct tetrachords.

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Regarding the earlier seven-stringed scales which preceded this octave our information is scanty and somewhat obscure.

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