With these keyboard instruments, strings are occasionally plucked or bowed by hand. The strings may also be plucked or bowed. Depending upon how the string is plucked or bowed, different overtones can be emphasized. The technique is chiefly written for bowed or plucked instruments. A lute stop is used to imitate the gentle sound of a plucked lute. The earliest stringed instruments were mostly plucked (for example, the Greek lyre). She then plucked a flower ritually using her thumb, touched Juno's belly, and impregnated her. They plucked her eyebrows and sketched a line across her forehead. Some harpsichords may have a lute stop, which simulates the sound of a plucked lute. In pizzicato playing, the string is plucked directly with the fingers or thumb. Chords are often plucked, with strums being reserved for emphasis. Instruments have been designed that overcome the mandolin's lack of sustain with its plucked notes. The white feathers make the carcass easy to clean after being plucked. In most genres the shamisen strings are plucked with a "bachi". The guzheng is plucked by the fingers with or without plectra.