I used to work in the music shop there and we'd supply the studios with microphones and leads sometimes and plectrums, lots of plectrums. |
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There was a lone bass guitar propped up in a corner across the room, an unplugged amp beside it and plectrums and sheets of paper on the floor around it. |
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The problems of construction, strings and tunings aside, the critical issue is that the instrument is played not with plectrums, bows or hammers, but only by the hand. |
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Those plectrums are a bit like a collection of musical bus tickets. |
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No, we'd probably still be meeting in town each Saturday afternoon half-deaf in our denims with pockets full of plectrums and heads full of cheap dope and impossible dreams. |
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Black plectrums with gold imprint are still available! |
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This traditional Arabic instrument was replaced with time by the piano, itself an evolution of the harpsichord, an instrument which exchanged the zither's plectrums with hammers. |
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The koto is played by plucking the strings with the thumb and first two fingers of the right hand, which are fitted with ivory plectrums called tsume. |
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Indeed, it is curious how musicians who might be self-conscious playing themselves on film find it easy to play fictional musicians who they are as similar to as plectrums in a gig-bag. |
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These ones, you see in my hand are ring and plectrums. |
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