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Guitar vs Veena - What's the difference?

guitar | veena |

As nouns the difference between guitar and veena

is that guitar is a stringed musical instrument, usually with fretted fingerboard and 6 strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick) while veena is {{cx|musical instrument|lang=en}} A plucked stringed instrument used mostly in Carnatic Indian classical music.

As a verb guitar

is to play the guitar.

guitar

English

(wikipedia guitar)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A stringed musical instrument, usually with fretted fingerboard and 6 strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).

    • Synonyms

    * axe (slang) * gat (New Zealand slang)

    Derived terms

    * acoustic guitar * air guitar * bass guitar * electric guitar * guitarist * guitarfish * harpguitar * lead guitar * moon guitar * rhythm guitar

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (rare) To play the guitar.

    • See also

    * banjo * bass * mandolin * sitar * ukulele ----

    veena

    English

    (wikipedia veena)

    Alternative forms

    *vina

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A plucked stringed instrument used mostly in Carnatic Indian classical music.
  • *1997 , (Kiran Nagarkar), Cuckold , HarperCollins 2013, p. 339:
  • *:When he wanted to test any of the principles he was enunciating or elucidating, he went over to the veena which sits in a glass case now and played for hours and substantially extended the vocabulary and scope of the instrument.
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