The three-stringed plucked lute of Japan is known as the shamisen in the Tokyo area or as the… The samisen was derived from the similar Chinese sanxian, a version of which—the sanshin—reached Japan from the Ryukyu Islands in the 16th century.

Musicians play some string instruments by plucking the strings with their fingers or a plectrum—and others by hitting the strings with a light wooden hammer or by rubbing the strings with a bow. All of the bowed string instruments can also be plucked with the fingers, a technique called “pizzicato”.

In Europe, lute refers to a plucked stringed musical instrument popular in the 16th and 17th centuries. The lute that was prominent in European popular art and music of the Renaissance and Baroque periods originated as the Arab ʿūd.

zither

Most plucked string instruments belong to the lute family (such as guitar, bass guitar, mandolin, banjo, balalaika, sitar, pipa, etc.), which generally consist of a resonating body, and a neck; the strings run along the neck and can be stopped at different pitches.

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Bowed string instruments are a subcategory of string instruments that are played by a bow rubbing the strings….Variants on the standard four members of the viol family include:

• Pardessus de viol.
• Division viol.
• Lyra viol.
• Baryton.
• Violone.
• Viola d’amore.
• Lirone.
• Vihuela de arco.

transitive verb. 1 : to pull or pick off or out. 2a : to remove something (such as hairs) from by or as if by plucking pluck one’s eyebrows. b : rob, fleece. 3 : to move, remove, or separate forcibly or abruptly plucked the child from the middle of the street.

When you tweeze a hair, your goal is to pull the hair shaft out of the skin, at its root. You may, however, wind up breaking the hair, causing it to snap back where you can’t get to it. If this happens, don’t try to dig out the partially tweezed hair, as this can cause skin irritation or infection.

Plucking occurs when rocks and stones become frozen to the base or sides of the glacier and are plucked from the ground or rock face as the glacier moves. This leaves behind a jagged landscape. Abrasion occurs when rocks and stones become embedded in the base and sides of the glacier.

to pull off or out from the place of growth, as fruit, flowers, feathers, etc.: to pluck feathers from a chicken. to remove the feathers, hair, etc., from by pulling: to pluck a chicken. Slang. to rob, plunder, or fleece. to sound (the strings of a musical instrument) by pulling at them with the fingers or a plectrum.

You can eat a dead chicken provided it hasn’t been dead for too long, and you can establish the cause of death with some certainty. Some circumstances that resulted in the death of the chicken may render the carcass unfit for human consumption and may be more of a danger to your than hunger.

It’s best to begin with the wing feathers and simply pull in a downward motion. Try not to pull too many feathers at a time. If you grab too much you can risk tearing the skin. The first thing you’ll want to do is cut around the vent (or anus) of the chicken.

Hang the chicken over a bucket and with a sharp knife cut across the jugular being careful not to cut through the back of the neck. This will open up the neck and allow the blood to fill the bucket. The next step is plucking the feathers off the chicken. You obviously don’t want to eat the feathers of the chicken.

Don’t cook a freshly killed chicken on the day of death, especially if you killed it yourself. And if you are going to kill it yourself, take away its food 24 hours before slaughter, so its bowels are empty. You want to wait this period so the meat can relax, and let the rigor mortis fade away.

What you will do is hold the chicken in your left arm, grasp the chicken’s head at the base of its skull (you can feel where the skull meets the neck) and snap the chicken’s head in a down and out movement.

Forget plucking altogether and instead, skin your chickens. The process is quicker, eliminating not only all feathers, but the skin, excessive fat, the tail and the head. You get all of the meat in a neat, freezable package.

Yancey: “Dark meat cuts come from muscles that use more oxygen and have more iron. The iron is held in a protein called myoglobin, which gives it the darker color. White meat cuts come from muscles that metabolize energy with less oxygen, so they have less myoglobin and are lighter in color.”

Definitely decapitation is most humane. The bird does not know what is coming, and death is instantaneous. Bleeding out by slitting jugular takes longer, so bird would suffer the pain of the cut before it passes out.

Just theoretically, plucking the feathers may cause a harm – at least in the way it may cause a skin rupture, what may lead to infection. Indeed, in this 1991 study (with the same lead author as the Animal Welfare article), plucking the feathers was shown to be indeed painful for a chicken.

Live plucking causes birds considerable pain and distress. Once their feathers are ripped out, many of the birds, paralyzed with fear, are left with gaping wounds—some even die as a result of the procedure.

The highest grade of down, used to make the most comfy and costly bedding, involves a practice called live-plucking. That’s when feathers and the undercoating of geese and ducks are pulled off their skin while the waterfowl are still alive.

Birds have pain receptors, Bekoff says, and feel pain as mammals do.

They limp, they cringe, they howl, they wine, they have little sad faces, they cry or scream when you try to do anything to their “sore bits”. When birds are in pain they will sometimes limp, hold their wing at a strange angle or something more obvious. But often they may just look at you blankly and do nothing!

While the range of emotional expression of birds can be hotly debated, there are prominent emotions that can be seen in many wild birds. Birds that mate for life may show love toward one another in many ways, including sharing companionship throughout the year just as human mates will.

New research suggests that some birds may know who their human friends are, as they are able to recognize people’s faces and differentiate between human voices. Being able to identify a friend or potential foe could be key to the bird’s ability to survive.

Birds normally don’t mourn the loss of young chicks. The parents are usually so preoccupied with making sure the remaining chicks stay alive that they don’t really notice the death. The dead chick would be drained of all fluids so that it doesn’t rot and pose any threat to the remaining babies.

Do Birds Remember Their Previous Owners? Yes, especially parrots. Parrots have memories that are superior to other animals, as they are known to navigate by memory. However, birds, in general, are able to recall actions by their previous owners, and they will act accordingly, such as being shy or aggressive.