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. From Wordnik.com. [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference
The Terran glimpsed fingernails reinforced with sharp steel plectra. From Wordnik.com. [Agent Of The Terran Empire]
I now discover that my account type doesn't allow me to set up a poll on plectrums vs plectra, but I'm sure you lot will leave comments if you have a strong view on the subject. From Wordnik.com. [grahamsleight's Journal] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference
Both in Spain and southern France accompanying instruments struck with plectra or twanged with the fingers were adopted at a very early period, and the people of those parts attained to a high state of proficiency -- so much so indeed as to have rendered the cultivation of this description of music a national characteristic with them in the use of such instruments. From Wordnik.com. [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1] Reference
"Things like the sound of the keys as you strike them, the sound of the jacks and the plectra as they make contact with the strings - these are all things that tell you that you're listening to a real, analogue, organic instrument. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News | Technology | World Edition] Reference
Hic thyrsos, hic plectra ferit. From Wordnik.com. [A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I.] Reference
Ares, who covered seven plectra of ground?. From Wordnik.com. [The Caxtons — Complete] Reference
15 assorted kinds of plectra, mostly Dunlop Orange and Yellows. From Wordnik.com. [Word Magazine - Comments] Reference
Or plectra?. From Wordnik.com. [grahamsleight's Journal] Reference
Grandiloquis numeris plectra Britanna canent. From Wordnik.com. [The British Magazine and Review, Or, Universal Miscellany] Reference
Mitratisque sonant Lydia plectra choris. From Wordnik.com. [Cynthia Dead] Reference
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