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Actually, the author is rather well informed on the history and construction of stringed instruments.

Syntax nit: A viola is a stringed instrument.

Instrumentation would have been based on either a piano, flute, or that century's particular flavor of stringed instrument.

These are certainly helpful for stringed instruments, but are basically irrelevant if you play a wind instrument.

Some people think the enclosure's function is to resonate, similar to the body of a violin or other stringed instrument.

Not only could you hear a collection of a dozen stringed instruments play, you could do so in the presence of a duke!

You don't have enough time in this world to master every stringed instrument.

Don’t you have to use right and left brain for a stringed instrument?

I don't think anyone was really confused between that and teh stringed instument given the context.

With stringed instruments, as you say, just making a sound and holding the instrument right are so difficult for beginners, reading music pales in comparison.

If you're still interested, try solo stringed classical pieces while coding.

Players of bowed stringed instruments run into this difficulty too.

Programs are pretty much stringed together by this "myriad" of custom functions, that might not be useful outside this one program.

Moreover, a stringed instrument made of wood is also sensitive to time: The strings stretch, thanks to the well-known phenomenon of "creep".

I play a stringed instrument, and purchased a "professional" model a few years ago.

Perhaps Qualcomm even stringed them along (I'm speculating) JBQ says he's very frustrated with the "lawyers", for what exact reasons- I don't know.

Stringed instruments, if part of the local culture, would provide another hint.