traditional / conventional

line / level / beam

matter of taste

(slang) pistol; gun / tiddlywinks

to flick and make something spring/jump / (of materials) to reject; to repel (some external substance) / (from the metaphor of beating beads of an abacus) to calculate

play (a stringed or keyboard musical instrument)

Synonym of 三味線 (shamisen): a Japanese plucked string instrument played similarly to a banjo

a fretless plucked lute with three strings and a skin-covered body originally from Okinawa, the precursor to the shamisen

musical instrument

(rare, possibly obsolete) a rope used to catch fish