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Bow : a piece of wood bent into a curve by a tight string joining its ends.

To bow : to use a bow on a musical instrument with strings.

Chord : a combination of notes sounded together in harmony.

Ebony : the hard black wood of tropical trees.

Fret : each of bars or ridges on the neck of a guitar or a similar instrument, used as a guide for the fingers to press the strings at the correct place.

Hornbeam : a type of tree with smooth grey back and hard tough wood.

Maple : the wood of a tree with leaves that have five points.

Peg : a short piece of wood, metal or plastic, used for tightening or loosening strings of violins etc.

Plectrum : piece of metal, wood, plastic or bone used for plucking the strings of a guitar.

Sapwood : the soft outer layers of the wood of the tree, inside the back.

Sound box : * a device in an early phonograph for producing sound from a record by using the vibration of needle to move a diaphragm.
* a hollow chamber in a musical instrument for increasing its sonarity.

Sound board : a thin resonant board(as the belly of violin) so placed in an instrument as to reinforce its tones by sympathetic vibration.

Sound hole : an opening in the top surface of a stringed instrument(as a violin) to enhance vibration.

Tune : to adjust a musical instrument to the correct pitch.

Vibrate : to produce or make sth produce a sound with rapid slight variation of pitch.

Abuse: wrong or excessive use of sth.

Assume : to accept sth as true before there is proof, to display sth falsely, to pretend sth.

Bombard : to attrack with constant question, criticism.

Frantic : hurried and excited but not well-organized.

Gamut : the complete range or scale of sth ; the whole gamut of human emotions from joy to despair.

Haphazard : without plan or order.

Inspiration : the process of having one's mind or creative abilities stimulated eg in art music or literature.

Integrate: To combine two things in such a way that one becomes fully a part of other.

Loud : producing much noise easily heard.

Masochism : the practice of getting sexual pleasure from sb physically hurting one.

Nihilistic : the belief that nothing really exists.

Precarious : not safe, dangerous.

Rhythm : a strong regular repeated pattern of sounds or movements.

Sadism : enjoyment from watching or inflecting physical or mental suffring ; sexual pleasure obtained from this.

Sinful :wrong, wicked.

Soft sound : quiet, gentle, not loud.

Sonority : sounding impressive and important.

Soprano : a singing voice of the highest range for a woman or boy.

Soul : a type of music made popular by African-Americans, expressing strong emotion : the sound of soul sings.

Subtle :difficult to detect or discribe.

Taste : to be able to recognize flavours in food and drink.

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