Description

something you can use to play a song or use to eat with
a musical instrument, roughly triangular in shape, consisting of a frame supporting a graduated series of parallel strings, played by plucking with the fingers
a stringed musical instrument with a long neck and a round open-backed body consisting of parchment stretched over a metal hoop like a tambourine, played by plucking or with a plectrum.
the largest and lowest-pitched instrument of the violin family, providing the bass line of the orchestral string section
a US folk song, a mountain ballad that was popular among soldiers from eastern Kentucky during World War I and afterwards
is a popular American song written by Stephen Foster in 1856, written in honor of Annie Jenkins
a 1938 ballet written by the American composer Aaron Copland
Early American folk musicians used to play music with and wash their clothes
A musical instrument played with buzzed lips to produce a trombone-like tone
The instrument, which has strings and is played with a bow
is a song used in the 2006 Disney·Pixar film Cars
considered as part of the tradition or custom of a particular people
an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later a conductor of his own and other American music
known as "the father of American music",
American folk singer and actress. Dubbed “The First Lady of the Children's Folk Song”
was an American folk singer and social activist. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s
was an American folk and blues musician notable for his strong vocals
a traditional American country folk song popular at various times throughout the United States and Canada
is a fretted string instrument of the zither family

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