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  1. piano
    a musical instrument played by pressing black and white keys
  2. guitar
    a stringed instrument usually having six strings
  3. violin
    a hand-held stringed instrument played with a bow
  4. flute
    a high-pitched woodwind instrument
  5. trumpet
    a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone
  6. saxophone
    a single-reed woodwind with a conical bore
  7. clarinet
    a single-reed instrument with a straight tube
  8. cello
    a large stringed instrument
  9. trombone
    a brass instrument with a long tube and a U-shaped slide
  10. banjo
    a stringed instrument that has long neck and circular body
  11. ukulele
    a small guitar having four strings
  12. harp
    a chordophone with strings between the neck and the soundbox
  13. accordion
    a portable box-shaped free-reed instrument
  14. bagpipe
    a tubular wind instrument
  15. xylophone
    a bright-toned wooden bar instrument played with hard-headed mallets
  16. marimba
    a deep-toned wooden bar instrument played with soft-headed mallets
  17. vibraphone
    a percussion instrument similar to a xylophone but having metal bars and rotating disks in the resonators that produce a vibrato sound
  18. double bass
    largest and lowest member of the violin family
  19. viola
    a stringed instrument played with a bow
  20. oboe
    a slender double-reed instrument
  21. bassoon
    a double-reed woodwind instrument that makes a low sound
  22. tuba
    the lowest brass wind instrument
  23. mandolin
    a stringed instrument related to the lute
  24. record
    anything providing permanent evidence about past events
  25. harmonica
    a small rectangular instrument into which air is blown
  26. synthesize
    combine and form a complex whole
  27. electric guitar
    a guitar whose sound is amplified by electrical means
  28. keyboard
    set of levers that can be pressed, as on a piano or computer
  29. organ
    a structure in an animal specialized for some function
  30. piccolo
    a small flute; pitched an octave above the standard flute
  31. bass guitar
    an instrument that has the lowest pitch or range
  32. didgeridoo
    a tube-shaped wind instrument of the Aborigine people
  33. sitar
    a stringed instrument of India
  34. balalaika
    a stringed instrument that has a triangular body and three strings
  35. conga
    a Latin American dance of 3 steps and a kick by people in single file
  36. djembe
    a hand drum shaped like a goblet originating in West Africa
  37. bongo
    a small drum; played with the hands
  38. theremin
    an electronic musical instrument
  39. cymbal
    a percussion instrument consisting of a concave brass disk
  40. gong
    a large metal disk that sounds a note when struck
  41. steel drum
    a concave percussion instrument made from the metal top of an oil drum; has an array of flattened areas that produce different tones when struck (of Caribbean origin)
  42. triangle
    a three-sided polygon
  43. tambourine
    a shallow drum with metallic disks in the sides
  44. castanets
    pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone made to click together
  45. cowbell
    a bell hung around the neck of cow so that the cow can be easily located
  46. wood block
    engraving consisting of a block of wood with a design cut into it; used to make prints
  47. chime
    a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument
  48. celesta
    a musical instrument consisting of graduated steel plates that are struck by hammers activated by a keyboard
  49. glockenspiel
    a percussion instrument consisting of a set of metal bars
  50. sousaphone
    the lowest brass wind instrument
  51. mouth organ
    a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole
  52. kazoo
    a toy wind instrument into which one hums
  53. hurdy-gurdy
    a musical instrument that makes music by rotation of a cylinder studded with pegs
  54. zither
    a musical instrument with strings over a flat sounding board
  55. dulcimer
    a stringed instrument used in American folk music
  56. concertina
    free-reed instrument played like an accordion by pushing its ends together to force air through the reeds
  57. lute
    a stringed instrument with a pear-shaped body
  58. lyre
    a harp used by ancient Greeks for accompaniment
  59. ocarina
    egg-shaped terra cotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes
  60. cornet
    a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone
  61. euphonium
    a bass horn that is the tenor of the tuba family
  62. bass clarinet
    a large clarinet whose range is an octave below the B-flat clarinet
  63. contrabassoon
    the bassoon that is the largest instrument in the oboe family
  64. baritone horn
    the second lowest brass wind instrument
  65. cor anglais
    a double-reed woodwind instrument similar to an oboe but lower in pitch
  66. bass drum
    a large drum with two heads
  67. timpani
    a large brass or copper drum
  68. maraca
    a rattle-like instrument that is shaken to make noise
Created on Mon Apr 08 09:54:03 EDT 2024

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