strings

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the group of instruments that have strings and are played with a bow or with the fingers, or the players in a musical group who play these instruments:

I prefer his compositions for strings.

He played the cello and joined the strings in the school orchestra.

The conductor called an extra rehearsal for the strings.

She's head of strings at an expensive private school.

Can I hear the strings from bar 54, please?