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  • 31Pull-off — A pull off is a stringed instrument technique performed by plucking a string by pulling the string off the fingerboard with one of the fingers being used to fret the note. DescriptionA pull off is often Fact|date=November 2007 performed on a… …

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  • 32Fingerstyle guitar — This article is about the guitar style. For the Chet Atkins album, see Finger Style Guitar. Fingerstyle guitar Fingerstyle guitar is the technique of playing the guitar by plucking the strings directly with the fingertips, fingernails, or picks… …

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  • 33fret — I. verb (fretted; fretting) Etymology: Middle English, to devour, fret, from Old English fretan to devour; akin to Old High German frezzan to devour, ezzan to eat more at eat Date: 12th century transitive verb 1. a. to eat or gnaw into ; corr …

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  • 34Clavichord — 1977 clavichord by Keith Hill, Op. 44 (Op. 28 reworked) Keyboard instrument Hornbostel–Sachs classification 314.122 4 8 (Simple chordophone with keyboard sounded by tangents) …

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  • 35Epinette des Vosges — The épinette des Vosges is a traditional plucked string instrument of the zither family, whose use was confined to two areas in the Vosges mountains of France approximately 50km apart: around Val d Ajol and around Gérardmer.OriginsThe épinette… …

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  • 36fret — I. /frɛt / (say fret) verb (fretted, fretting) –verb (i) 1. to give oneself up to feelings of irritation, resentful discontent, regret, worry, or the like. 2. to cause corrosion; gnaw. 3. to make a way by gnawing or corrosion. 4. to become eaten …

  • 37fret — fret1 [fret] vt. fretted, fretting [ME freten < OE fretan, to devour, akin to Ger fressen, Goth fra itan < Gmc prefix * fra (OE for : see FOR ) + * itan, to eat (OE etan: see EAT)] 1. to eat away; gnaw 2. to wear away by gnawing, rubbing,… …

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  • 38Guitar — Infobox Instrument name=Guitar names= classification=String instrument (plucked, nylon stringed guitars usually played with fingerpicking, and steel , etc. usually with a pick.) range= (a regularly tuned guitar) related=*Bowed and plucked string… …

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  • 39Chapman Stick — A 10 string Chapman Stick The Chapman Stick (the Stick) is an electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman in the early 1970s. A member of the guitar family, the Chapman Stick usually has ten or twelve individually tuned strings and has… …

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  • 40Cold welding — An Alaska gold nugget weighing 63.8 grams. Gold nuggets are often formed through the cold welding of smaller particles which impact as they are carried along water currents Cold or contact welding is a solid state welding process in which joining …

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