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Now slow The plectrum led to prayer the cloistered chords, Now loudly with the crash of falling rain, Now soft as the leaf whispering of words, Now loud and soft together as the long Patter of pearls and seed-pearls on a dish Of marble; liquid now as from the bush Warbles the mango bird; meandering Now as the streamlet seawards; voiceless now As the wild torrent in the strangling arms Of her ice-lover, lying motionless, Lulled in a passion far too deep for sound.

For sounds in winter nights, and often in winter days, I heard the forlorn but melodious note of a hooting owl indefinitely far; such a sound as the frozen earth would yield if struck with a suitable plectrum, the very lingua vernacula of Walden Wood, and quite familiar to me at last, though I never saw the bird while it was making it.

You mean, I said, those gentlemen who tease and torture the strings and rack them on the pegs of the instrument: might carry on the metaphor and speak after their manner of the blows which the plectrum gives, and make accusations against the strings, both of backwardness and forwardness to sound; but this would be tedious, and therefore I will only say that these are not the men, and that I am referring to the Pythagoreans, of whom I was just now proposing to enquire about harmony.

"What you seek is the Pick of Destiny," he tells them, relating the story stretching back to the Dark Ages, and a plectrum made from the tooth of a demon, which is now on display at the Rock And Roll History Museum.

A guitar salesman (Stiller) talking of plectrums, tells the two: "What you seek is the Pick of Destiny," relating the story stretching back to the Dark Ages, and a plectrum made from the tooth of a demon, which is now on display at the Rock And Roll History Museum.

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``He is paralysed on the right hand side of his body but he retains some feeling and he can still hold a guitar plectrum.

But the concert seemed a bit impromptu, verging on madcap, when she confessed to forgetting her plectrum before getting one from the audience.

The Calcutta-born Sarathy will typically begin each raga with aggressive downswipes of his plectrum, gradually adding detail and building up the speed of his runs.

There is still some online trace of the Purple Rain singer on the web though as his last two albums, Art Official Age and Plectrum Electrum are still available on Spotify.

He has two separate hooks which he continually swaps round, one for everyday living and another specifically for the guitar with a plectrum attached to it.