Assertion: double bass's string | /r/HasProperty | plucked
Facets:
value: vertically
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: When the violinist is directed to pluck a string (Ital. pizzicato), the sound produced dies away, or dampens, quickly: the dampening is more striking for a violin compared with the other members of the violin family because of its smaller dimensions, and the effect is greater if an open string is plucked.
text: A further variation is a particularly strong pizzicato where the string is plucked vertically by snapping and rebounds off the fingerboard of the instrument.
text: Guitar music from the 16th to 18th century was notated either in tablature (showing the position of the fingers on the frets and the strings to be plucked) or in a system of alphabetical chord symbols.
text: Some instruments are employed with sympathetic strings—which are additional strings not meant to be plucked.