Word: plectrum
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...only now, at 37, has he finally budged from In dianapolis in order to join his brothers Monk and Buddy in a group called the Mastersounds. His playing, though bristling with authority, is unorthodox: he plucks the strings with his thumb in stead of his fingers or a plectrum, giving a rounded, intense tone, and he phrases in short, jabbing bursts instead of the looping legatos of most post-Christian guitarists. Enter Jazz Critic Ralph Gleason...
...shimmering sonority into which the winds and brass poked tiny pin points, like stars among scudding clouds. Through it all one black-and-grey-robed soloist warbled the mournful, breathy tones of the shakuhachi, a bamboo flute, while another tapped the strings of the lutelike biwa with a wooden plectrum, suggesting the sharp, dry crunch of dead branches in an icy forest...
...neck (lengths varied) has a fretted keyboard over which are stretched perhaps four, perhaps as many as 24 gut strings. Lutanists (musicians who play the flute are flautists; musicians who play the lute are Internists or lutenists) plucked or twanged the strings either with their fingers or a plectrum. Because of its spoon-shaped body the instrument cannot be confused with the modern guitar which has a flat bottom joined to the sound board by separate ribs. In appearance it is more like the mongrel, wire-strung mandolin...
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