Omerta combined synths, strings, bleeps and beeps, cutting guitar, and a solid rhythm section to create music that engaged both melodically and lyrically delivered by a heart-rending vocal.

His music employs elements of many genres: with an often frenzied aesthetic, Thirlwell's music combines percussion, strings, distortion, brass, electric guitars, electronic sounds and voice.

The following year he put out a groundbreaking collection, "Music for Dreaming," which combined melodic strings with a big-band sound.

Icelandic composer Olafur Arnalds provides a newly commissioned score combining piano, strings and electronics.

The instrumentation combines "lush strings", a "quiet acoustic guitar strum and gentle piano".

Musically, it combines a woodwind section and strings, both played in blocked chords.

It's acceptable enough on the wound strings, but the unwound B and E sound distinctly sharp, and combining low open strings with high chords above the octave is an inadvisable move.

A large mixed ensemble combining voice, strings, winds and piano, Lunatics at Large was formed to explore the timbral possibilities of chamber music repertoire from the beginning of the 20th century until now.

Some zithers combine stoppable (melody) strings with a greater number of "open" harmony or chord strings.

Combat is handled through combining strings of light and heavy attacks, with grapple-based attacks becoming available once enemies take enough damage.