| 单词 | plectron |
| 例句 | Most obviously, on Friday, that occurred in “Solstice,” whose minimal theme was created by a four-armed pendulum, created for this project, with strings attached to the arms, struck by stationary plectra. Music Review: Bjork at the New York Hall of Science 2012-02-04T08:34:26Z "At the moment we are using precise but cost-effective manufacturing techniques for the plectra and casing and anticipate that remaining parts will be molded industrially, slashing the cost." New device powers gadgets through walking 2012-06-14T17:21:35Z 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. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z The jacks have the early steel springs, and in 1885 traces were found in the instrument of original brass plectra, all of which point to a very early date. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" All of these three instruments had strings of brass, with quill plectra attached to pieces of wood. How the Piano Came to Be These erected scales act on the string like so many infinitesimal plectra and thus produce in perfection the sustained sound attempted in a grosser manner by the tremolo of the mandoline. The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use 'The Strad' Library, No. III. Aristotle predicted, long ago, that “when the shuttle would move of itself, and plectra of themselves strike the lyre, we should need no more slaves.” Principles Of Political Economy Of course it is understood that both types of virginals as well as the spinet and the harpsichord were keyed chordophones employing the plucking action of jacks and plectra. Italian Harpsichord-Building in the 16th and 17th Centuries Implements less developed belong to a separate order of sound-producing contrivances, namely plectra, and may be described as permitting strumming by striking in place of twanging or twitching the strings. The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators Master Jones, who roared as loud as ten thousand men when he was hurt; or as you vill roar if I catch you calling him Mars again?—Ares, who covered seven plectra of ground? The Caxtons — Complete To paraphrase a popular expression, "fingers were made before plectra," the latter being an "improvement" on nature's contrivance. The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use 'The Strad' Library, No. III. But they were the kind you would have expected Nero's soldiers to be, and the arms they carried were zithers and plectra, masks and buskins. Dio's Rome, Volume 5, Books 61-76 (A.D. 54-211) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form By Herbert Baldwin Foster The plectra, perhaps not original, are of leather. Italian Harpsichord-Building in the 16th and 17th Centuries 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. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 The direction in which the plectra of each row of jacks should be pointing is not known. Italian Harpsichord-Building in the 16th and 17th Centuries Each of these jacks has two plectra, one pointing to the right and one to the left. Italian Harpsichord-Building in the 16th and 17th Centuries The plectra nearest the keyboard points the same way whether the jack is upside down or not. Italian Harpsichord-Building in the 16th and 17th Centuries |
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