"wire" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The baryton differs from the bass viol in having an additional set of wire strings.
- Formerly, its three or four strings were made from finely split rattan, but today they are made of wire strings.
- When the gut strings are bowed, the wire strings vibrate sympathetically, enriching the tone.
- The wire strings may also be plucked by the performer's left thumb, creating a contrasting tonal quality.
- There were ten wire strings, tuned in a D-major scale, plus the A a fourth below and the E a major second above.
- In most barytons, the wire strings were often tuned in the range of the three lowest bowed strings.
- The wire strings of the Prince's instrument were instead tuned in the same range as the highest three bowed strings.
- The viola is 87cm long and is thought originally to have had twelve strings, but now only has nine wire strings.
- The instrument has twenty-three 800mm-long wire strings attached to a bamboo tube with a metal hose-clamp around the top rim.
- He invented a piano that would never go out of tune, as it used small bells instead of wire strings.
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