plectrum
Small thin piece of horn, wood, tortoiseshell, metal, ivory, or other material used to pluck the str. of certain str. instrs. such as zither, mandolin, lyre, lute, banjo, etc. On the hpd. it is a ...
re-entrant tuning
A tuning that is not sequential in pitch. Instruments that characteristically have re-entrant tunings include the five-string banjo, the cittern, the theorbo, and the ukulele.
ukulele
A small four-string guitar derived in Hawaii in the 1870s from the Portuguese machête taken there by sailors. Being small, lightweight, relatively cheap, and easy to learn, it became very ...
