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nail violin

noun

  1. a musical instrument consisting of a wooden cylinder or half cylinder with a number of nails or U -shaped metal pins inserted into its surface, played with one or two fiddle bows.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of nail violin1

First recorded in 1880–85
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Example Sentences

Two specimens of the nail-violin, one of which has sympathetic strings of thin brass-wire running over the sound-board.

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