Remember that triangular thing called a plectrum that's supposed to be one of a user's choices for ways of input on the. From Wordnik.com. [Unwired View] Reference
Another interesting feature on offer is a plectrum, which is an extra input device besides the alphanumeric keypad and pen stylus. From Wordnik.com. [The Economic Times] Reference
The biwa is played with a kind of plectrum, called bachi, usually made of horn. From Wordnik.com. [Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things] Reference
They also support the use of a stylus, such as the cute and handy 'plectrum' that comes with the Nokia 5800. From Wordnik.com. [News From Symbian Smart Phones World...] Reference
His plectrum nails were broken and filled with mud. From Wordnik.com. [Cal]
His lyre shall be jocose, his plectrum of the lighter sort. From Wordnik.com. [Horace and His Influence] Reference
I nodded at him and began tuning my treble strings with the plectrum. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Get-Back Boogie] Reference
He walked to the singing place, and drew his plectrum across the strings. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
Solemnly he sat down and began to tap the striking plate with the plectrum. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]
'Play me something?' asked the boy, offering him the mandolin and the plectrum. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]
He put the plectrum in his teeth when not using it, but often simply dropped it. From Wordnik.com. [STRANGE NEW WORLDS 10] Reference
At last she gave up even on this and let the plectrum fall to the mats in disgust. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of a Geisha]
He curled over his instrument, alternately playing it with his fingers and with a plectrum. From Wordnik.com. [STRANGE NEW WORLDS 10] Reference
Most of the finish below the sound hole had been worn away by years of plectrum strokes across the wood. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Get-Back Boogie] Reference
This didn't help, so finally Teacher Mouse began to work instead on Pumpkin's manner of holding the plectrum. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of a Geisha]
“I am a musician,” if he has bought a plectrum and a lute: nor will he say, “I am a smith,” if he has put on. From Wordnik.com. [The Discourses of Epictetus] Reference
Obscured behind a box a slim hand was reaching out from the side of the stage, always there with another plectrum as needed. From Wordnik.com. [STRANGE NEW WORLDS 10] Reference
We loved to surprise them with a psychedelic shirt, a piece of ethnic jewellery, or I would buy John a new plectrum for his guitar. From Wordnik.com. [John]
So, I was looking through eBay when I realised that there's a surprising amount of brain power being used in plectrum development. From Wordnik.com. [Six Weird Plectrums] Reference
Voice drunk, and harp drunk, plectrum and strings drunk. From Wordnik.com. [UUpdates - All updates] Reference
It cuts right through everything in the right-hand plectrum mode. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Industries] Reference
Both types of guitar can be played using a plectrum (pick) or finger-style. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
To calm himself he drew it to him, took up the plectrum, and began to play. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
An angel plays the cymbals, and another with a plectrum strikes a metal disc. From Wordnik.com. [In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc] Reference
You grab your plectrum between the T and the i, while the m, r and p are still used. From Wordnik.com. [All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com] Reference
You dont use your plectrum, but you use all 5 fingers of your right hand to play strings. From Wordnik.com. [All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com] Reference
Now, using short down-strokes with your pick (plectrum), strum the 6th and 5th strings only. From Wordnik.com. [EzineArticles] Reference
Now, the right hand just picks with the plectrum: No middle finger, ring finger or pinky anymore!. From Wordnik.com. [All Updates @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com] Reference
The plectrum used by the player is equally primitive being a fish-bone, a thorn or a bit of wood. From Wordnik.com. [My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula)] Reference
Playing his rabab, a short-necked lute that is plucked with a plectrum called a shahbaz, and accompanied on the tabla by a young. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Photown News] Reference
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