Assertion: stringed instrument | /r/HasProperty | viewed
Facets:
value: as being more sonorous
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Prior to the 19th-century, many double basses had only three strings; "Giovanni Bottesini (1821–1889) favored the three-stringed instrument popular in Italy at the time", because "the three-stringed instrument [was viewed as] being more sonorous".