Ancient Music. ‘A triangular stringed-instrument of a very sharp shrill tone’ (Lewis & Short).

A many-stringed musical instrument; a kind of lyre or lute.

= orpharion, n.

= barbiton, n. (In quot. 1624 attributive.)

A rude stringed instrument (see quots.).

Used to denote what was believed to have been a type of musical instrument known in ancient Greece (see quots.).

A polychord instrument; any of various instruments having many strings.

Any of various stringed instruments having a bass or droning tone; (now) spec. a type of folk instrument consisting of a monochord stretched on a…

(see quot.).

A Chinese stringed instrument resembling a lute.

Chiefly in Brazil: a four-stringed musical instrument similar to a ukulele.

In central and eastern Africa: a small, simple zither or harp, consisting of (usually) seven or eight strings strung across a trough-shaped…

An Indian musical instrument.

More generally: any of various other musical instruments consisting of a string or strings stretched across a soundboard of some type (and…

A Hawaiian stringed instrument consisting of a strip of wood with two or three strings that are played with the fingers and mouth.

Among the Hausa and Songhai people of West Africa: a type of stringed instrument (usually similar to a lute), with one, two, or three strings.

A West African musical instrument made of a wooden resonator to which several curved rods holding taut strings are attached.

An ancient acoustical instrument consisting of strings stretched over a resonance-box and capable of being adjusted to different lengths.