Very simple, with drums and strings both plucked and bowed.
But the jarring notes continued-the strings of a harp, plucked without tuning or harmony.
If it is too short, then the finger tip will deaden the sound as it touches the string after the nail has plucked it.
The A string was plucked, the tun-ing peg adjusted, the string plucked again.
Her nails plucked at the nubs of cotton as a musician fingers the strings of a harp.
He pursed his lips and half-flattened his ears, then plucked a string, listening critically to his instrument's voice.
When the piece began, it had the same hesitations and unevenness as the first scale I'd heard, some strings plucked too loudly and others too soft.
A particularly vivid effect is obtained when the strings plucked simultaneously are an octave apart.
It was as though their insides were nothing but an immense string on a bass viol and something had plucked that string.
They stared at it as the strings plucked themselves.