open string

noun

1. a staircase string whose top follows the profile of the steps in such a way that the treads project beyond its outer face.

Example Sentences

“The note has a beginning, a middle and an end. This open string must not sound like an open string!”

From Washington Post

Recalling his work on “Son of a Preacher Man,” Mr. Young told Premier Guitar magazine in 2016: “I was just sitting there goofing off. It’s sort of a Chet Atkins lick, because it uses an open string. They call them ‘identifying licks.’

From Washington Post

He had just been in Issaquah to open “String,” a world premiere musical he directed about three Greek goddesses banished to the mortal plane.

From Seattle Times

For them, the act of drawing a bow across the open string of a cello, for example, is anathema, just as the octave doubling of a melodic line was for Schoenberg and the twelve-tone school.

From The New Yorker

He sped the piece up, and moved the song to a higher key so that he could use the vibrant sound of the cello’s lowest open string.

From New York Times