(n.) A stringed instrument of music resembling the lute or the violin, but larger, and having six strings, three of silk covered with silver wire, and three of catgut, -- played upon with the fingers.
Example Sentences:
(1) He's finding solace, fleeting and fragmentary, and every springy guitar lick is its own benediction," Chinen wrote.
(2) There is Ed Sheeran , with a guitar and loop pedal, and Chris Martin leaping around the stage with the rest of Coldplay providing a dourer backdrop.
(3) Out of the seabird whoops and thrashing drumming of the intro to Endangered Species come guitar-sax exchanges that sound like Prime Time’s seething fusion soundscapes made illuminatingly clearer.
(4) While there's no discernible forró influence in the dreamy 80s indie-guitar music of Fortaleza's Cidadão Instigado, they do take influence from popular local style brega, a 1970s and 80s Brazilian romantic pop music.
(5) Danielle thudded out a bass beat, somehow keeping her guitar baying at the same time.
(6) "A new generation picking up guitars and drums and saying, 'I'm here!
(7) Unlike many music hack days, this is a commercial contest: the winning hack – as judged by Slash, BitTorrent founder Bram Cohen and investor Ben Parr – will earn its creator an autographed guitar, $1,000 and “the chance to have Slash use the winning hack with the release of his new album”.
(8) • The guitar, along with flamenco's signature cry of olé, are believed to be derived from early versions of the instruments brought by the Muslims to Spain.
(9) We went in September and found an annual three-week-long international guitar festival under way.
(10) I know you love me and I love you,” said Jonathan, wearing his trademark fedora and carrying a gold-handled cane, in a speech punctuated by bass guitar and cymbals.
(11) I know that would be an obvious thing to do to promote it, but the thought of strapping a guitar on again and playing all those songs from the past really does fill me with cold dread."
(12) Photograph: Hulton Archive Precisely how Shields achieves his queasy, waking-state guitar sound has long been the subject of stubbly examination.
(13) By 1973, I'd made it to London and I travelled around the UK with just my guitar and the clothes on my back.
(14) Online, you can find a blog by an advertising executive who worked with HMV for 25 years, in which he claims the company's former MD remarked in 2002 that "downloadable music is just a fad", which if it's true may well be music retail's own equivalent of "groups with guitars are on their way out, Mr Epstein".
(15) To the sound of an acoustic guitar and an earnest vocal, it opens with footage of a lonely Ed Miliband, wandering the dark, deserted streets of Westminster.
(16) She took a degree, wrote poetry, had Lord Longford running around for her and guitar lessons.
(17) His live shows begin with a skit mocking the pipsqueak talents of Jimi Hendrix: what price expanding the vocabulary of the rock guitar in a way unseen before or since when compared to a man from Penarth singing Yakety Yak?
(18) It was McKay who decided to bring guitar music to the dance kids in Ibiza.
(19) Chris – lassoed from a parallel universe where Tom Cruise gave Hollywood a swerve to focus on taking his guitar-alt-musings to open mic spots instead – looks on, coldly dissecting technique and cutting to seduction tips.
(20) Asked to define exactly what a music producer did, Ronson gave an example: "Working with someone like Amy Winehouse , she would come to me with just a song on an acoustic guitar and then you'd kind of dream up the rhythm arrangements and the track around it, all sorts of things.
Headstock
Definition:
(n.) A part (usually separate from the bed or frame) for supporting some of the principal working parts of a machine
(n.) The part of a lathe that holds the revolving spindle and its attachments; -- also called poppet head, the opposite corresponding part being called a tailstock.
(n.) The part of a planing machine that supports the cutter, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Records were kept of plant utilization data and all oil additions, including the headstock lubricant and hydraulic oil which entered the cutting oil as contaminants on a regular basis.