String instruments
Across
- 5. A small, thin plastic used to pluck strings on stringed instruments.
- 7. A continuous slide upwards or downwards between two notes.
- 8. Used to adjust the pitch of a musical instrument.
- 10. The largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.
- 12. A plucked stringed instrument with a long neck bearing frets and a rounded body with a flat front, rather like a halved egg in shape.
- 16. To gradually increase the tempo
- 17. A musical effect where a note changes pitch subtly and quickly.
- 19. A stringed instrument of the guitar family, with a round open-backed soundbox.
- 20. A structure at the head of a stringed instrument where the strings are attached to the tuning pegs.
Down
- 1. Plucking a string instrument with one finger.
- 2. A bass musical instrument of the violin group with four strings.
- 3. A guitar technique where fretted strings are displaced by displacing a force up towards another string.
- 4. slow and solemn.
- 6. The quality of a sound made by a particular voice or musical instrument.
- 9. The technique of playing two notes simultaneously on a instrument.
- 11. A tentioned stick used for violins
- 13. A form of musical notation indicating instrument fingering.
- 14. Part of most stringed instruments of the lute lineage.
- 15. A stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle with strings that are plucked with the fingers.
- 18. A instrument in the violin family with a slightly lower and deeper sound than a violin.