Historical clue formulations

• Noodles on a guitar — 2024-04-16
• Plays a ukulele — 2015-03-22
• Moves fingers across strings — 2009-03-15
• Plays chords, perhaps — 2007-01-31
• Pulls strings — 1999-07-14
• Plays idly — 1998-01-02
• Plays the zither — 1994-06-23