noun: a musical instrument like a guitar that people played in the past
noun: chordophone consisting of a plucked instrument having a pear-shaped body, a usually bent neck, and a fretted fingerboard
noun: a substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid
CHAPTER XIV .
DIAGRAM XI.—THE TWELVE MINOR KEY-NOTES, WITH THE SIX NOTES OF EACH, ARE AGAIN WRITTEN AS THEY VEER ROUND IN TRINITIES, AND THE SCALES ADDED.
"Unfaith in aught is want of faith in all.
It is the little rift within the lute
That by-and-by will make the music mute,
And, ever widening, slowly silence all."—Tennyson.
[Harmonies of Tones and Colours, Diagram XI - The Twelve Minor Keynotes with the Six Note of Each, page 36a]