Assertion: zither's sound | /r/HasProperty | produced
Facets:
value: by plucking open strings
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Sounds are produced by plucking open strings, stopped strings, and harmonics.
text: These instruments may have a resonator box, but removing it should not render the instrument unplayable, though it may result in quite a different sound being produced.
text: The system based on the way sounds are produced was largely developed (though based on earlier work) by Erich Moritz von Hornbostel and Curt Sachs; it has thus become known as either Hornbostel–Sachs or Sachs–Hornbostel.
text: Even though the piano strikes the strings, the use of felt hammers means that the sound that is produced can nevertheless be mellow and rounded, in contrast to the sharp attack produced when a very hard hammer strikes the strings.