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Alternative form of oud (stringed instrument) [(music) A short-necked and fretless plucked stringed instrument of the lute family, of Arab and Turkish origin.]
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Synonym of sekere (“musical instrument”)
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A box-shaped musical instrument with means of keys and buttons, whose tones are generated by play of the wind from a squeezed bellows upon free metallic reeds.
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(music) A musical instrument combining an electronic keyboard with an accordion.
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Synonym of acoustic bass guitar
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Someone who plays the acoustic bass guitar.
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(music) A string stop on an organ with a very soft tone.
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(music, historical) An obsolete musical instrument derived from the aeolodicon but having brass tubes affixed to the reeds, making it more like an organ.
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(music, historical) A modification of the aeolodicon, having wooden reeds or springs, and a pedal which triggered a set of bellows (one for each note) and produced a soft and ethereal sound.
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(dated) A form of combined speaking trumpet and ear trumpet.
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(music) A lamellophone worn around the neck, originating among the Yoruba of Nigeria, played by striking the box frame of the instrument with a ring worn around a thumb.
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An agogo bell, a bell used in Yoruba and Brazilian music and typically played in pairs
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(India) The musical sounds in nature and in Indian music, especially percussion
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A bowed zither used in Korean traditional and classical music.
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A folk lute of the Jola people of West Africa; a banjo-like instrument with a skin-headed gourd body, two long melody strings, and one short drone string.
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A Brazilian drum with a membrane made of animal skin.
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(music) One of the four margas (traditional techniques for playing percussive intruments), which combines strokes of the vamaka and urdhavaka drums.
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(colloquial, music) An alto saxophone
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A member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments that is smaller than the tenor saxophone but larger than the soprano saxophone, with a range of D♭₃ to A♭₅ or similar.
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A person playing alto saxophone or some other alto instrument.
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Synonym of angélique (“musical instrument”)
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A percussion instrument, originally from Indonesia, made of two bamboo tubes attached to a bamboo frame.
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Alternative form of angklung [A percussion instrument, originally from Indonesia, made of two bamboo tubes attached to a bamboo frame.]
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Alternative form of angklung [A percussion instrument, originally from Indonesia, made of two bamboo tubes attached to a bamboo frame.]
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A diatonically fretted and neckless string instrument, most commonly with three or four strings; a chordophone of the zither family.
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(obsolete) Alternative form of archlute [A fretted and double-necked stringed musical instrument with a large body, double courses in the bass, and two sets of tuning pegs.]
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Alternative form of archlute [A fretted and double-necked stringed musical instrument with a large body, double courses in the bass, and two sets of tuning pegs.]
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A fretted and double-necked stringed musical instrument with a large body, double courses in the bass, and two sets of tuning pegs.
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A musical instrument made of blown-glass bowls mounted on a spindle turned originally by a foot pedal, and played with wetted fingers, producing an ethereal sound. Technically, it is a crystallophone.
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A six-stringed musical instrument of the 19th century, fretted and tuned like a guitar but bowed like a cello, and held vertically between the knees.
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Someone who plays the arpeggione.
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Digital keyboard to play music with accompaniment styles.
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(music) A type of plucked lamellophone, a Western adaptation of the African mbira.
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(music) Any of a class of ancient Greek musical instruments resembling pipes or flutes.
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(music) A narrow-rimmed gong of Filipino origin, used singly to provide a rhythm in a kulintang ensemble.
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A seven-stringed musical instrument in various cultures around the eastern Mediterranean, with a pear-shaped body, and strings in double or sometimes triple courses.
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A wooden-keyed percussion idiophone of West Africa that is struck with two padded sticks.
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A plucked pear-shaped stringed instrument with a small body, originating in Colombia and Venezuela.
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Alternative spelling of bandura [A Ukrainian plucked stringed instrument with a tear-shaped body, like an asymmetrical lute or a vertical zither, which is played with both hands while held upright on the lap.]
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A Ukrainian plucked stringed instrument with a tear-shaped body, like an asymmetrical lute or a vertical zither, which is played with both hands while held upright on the lap.
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A plectrum-plucked stringed instrument with a flat-backed pear-shaped body, with twelve strings in six courses in its most common modern form, originating in Spain.
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A two-stringed bowed string instrument (chordophone) of northern Chinese origin, held vertically, possessing a soundbox usually made of coconut shell and a front surface covered with a thin layer of wood.
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A four-stringed musical instrument with a small membrane-covered body like a banjo, with a neck fretted like a ukulele.
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A musical instrument, most often with four strings, resembling a small banjo but tuned like a mandolin.
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A ukulele with the head of a banjo
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Alternative form of banjeaurine [(music) A variant of the banjo with a shorter neck, and tuned a fourth higher.]
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Alternative form of banjouke [A ukulele with the head of a banjo]
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(music) A bamboo transverse flute used in the classical music of North India.
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an ancient stringed musical instrument, apparently a type of lute or lyre
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An ancient stringed musical instrument from Greece, apparently a type of lute or lyre.
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Clipping of baritone saxophone. [A member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments that is smaller than the bass saxophone but larger than the tenor saxophone, with a range of D♭₂ to A₄ or similar.]
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A member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments that is smaller than the bass saxophone but larger than the tenor saxophone, with a range of D♭₂ to A₄ or similar.
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An archaic form of guitar with five strings, originating in the Baroque era, played by either strumming or plucking, and characterized by the use of re-entrant tuning.
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(music) a pipe organ dating from or built to the specifications of the Baroque period at the time of J.S. Bach
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A musical instrument in which air from a bellows is admitted to a set of pipes by means of pins inserted into a revolving barrel (typically turned by a crank), originating in France.
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(music) An early pianola or player piano.
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Alternative spelling of barrel organ [A musical instrument in which air from a bellows is admitted to a set of pipes by means of pins inserted into a revolving barrel (typically turned by a crank), originating in France.]
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(music) A reed stop on an organ of 16' or 8' that is imitative of a baryton.
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A long-necked and solid-bodied stringed instrument (chordophone), tuned to produce bass or low notes, usually with a fretted fingerboard and four thick strings, and requiring the use of an amplifier.
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A large brass instrument in the bass range, usually referring to the modern tuba or the archaic serpent
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Clipping of bass saxophone. [A member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments that is smaller than the contrabass saxophone but larger than the baritone saxophone, with a range of A♭₁ to E♭₄ or similar.]
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A trombone with the same fundamental pitch as the tenor, typically has two valves, a wider bore, and larger bell. These help to produce a fuller, weightier, sound, and help play better in the lower register.
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(music) A Renaissance double-reed woodwind instrument.
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(music) An alto instrument of the clarinet family, pitched in F below middle C, with a range reaching down to F below that.
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A musical instrument in the woodwind family, having a double reed and playing in the tenor and bass ranges.
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Alternative form of bouzouki [(music) A Greek long-necked plucked fretted lute with a sharp, metallic sound.]
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A type of lyre of Ethiopian and Eritrean origin with a rectangular soundbox and ten strings, which is played with a plectrum.
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Alternative form of belloneon [(historical, music) A mechanical musical instrument consisting of twenty-four trumpets and two kettle drums.]
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(music, Trinidad and Tobago) A type of folk drum used in Trinidad and Tobago.
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A type of frame drum used in Morocco and other parts of North Africa.
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A stringed instrument (chordophone) of Bosnian origin, a large guitar-shaped instrument that is played upright, using a plectrum.
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Alternative form of berimbau [(music) A percussion instrument, consisting of a gourd (as resonator) and a single wire stretched along a pole, used in Brazil, has a pivotal role in capoeira ensembles.]
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(music) A percussion instrument, consisting of a gourd (as resonator) and a single wire stretched along a pole, used in Brazil, has a pivotal role in capoeira ensembles.
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A set of qings, or sounding stones, used in Chinese music.
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(music) Any of a series of cheap musical instruments, made to resemble orchestral instruments, that were blown in the manner of a kazoo
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A pear-shaped lute with five strings, of Korean origin.
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(rare) Alternative spelling of berimbau [(music) A percussion instrument, consisting of a gourd (as resonator) and a single wire stretched along a pole, used in Brazil, has a pivotal role in capoeira ensembles.]
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Alternative form of berimbau [(music) A percussion instrument, consisting of a gourd (as resonator) and a single wire stretched along a pole, used in Brazil, has a pivotal role in capoeira ensembles.]
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A plucked lute, originating in the classical and traditional music of Japan, characterized by a pear-shaped body and four or five high frets, giving the instrument a distinctively twangy tone.
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To produce an overrich or overblown sound on a brass instrument such as a trumpet, trombone, or tuba.
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(music) A musical instrument of the woodwind family constructed using a fipple plug; a recorder.
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(music) Alternative form of Block Flute. [(music) A flute stop on an organ of 4' or 2' that is imitative of a recorder.]
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(music) Abbreviation of bassoon. [A musical instrument in the woodwind family, having a double reed and playing in the tenor and bass ranges.]
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A curved, tapered metal tube which connects the reed of several double reed woodwind instruments (such as the cor anglais, bassoon, and contrabassoon) to the rest of the instrument.
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Someone who plays a bodhran.
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A traditional string instrument of West Africa, consisting of four strings stretched over a gourd.
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A traditional harp played in Mali.
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An organ pedal stop at 32' pitch which imitates the sound of the above mentioned instruments.
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(music) A set of small gongs placed on a rack and usually struck with a padded stick, a type of gong chime, used in the gamelan music of Java.
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Alternative form of bouzouki [(music) A Greek long-necked plucked fretted lute with a sharp, metallic sound.]
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Alternative spelling of buzuq [(music) A mandolin-shaped lute of Arab origin, with a long neck, movable frets and two or three strings played with a plectrum.]
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(music) A Greek long-necked plucked fretted lute with a sharp, metallic sound.
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A type of Appalachian dulcimer played with a bow and held upright like a cello.
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A zither with a trapezoidal or rectangular shaped sound box.
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(music) A class of wind instruments, usually made of metal (such as brass), that use vibrations of the player's lips to produce sound; the section of an orchestra that features such instruments
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Any musical instrument whose tone is produced by vibration of the lips as the player blows into a mouthpiece (or tubular resonator).
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Someone who plays a brass instrument.
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A stringed instrument of Bosnian origin, a type of lute with circular soundholes, a long neck, and usually four strings.
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(music, historical) A medieval wind instrument with a very long, straight and slender body, usually made of metal.
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(music) The short introduction to a gamelan piece, generally played by a single instrument in a free rhythm, with the kendhang coming in on the last few notes to set the tempo.
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An ancient Norwegian musical instrument, made from the horn of a ram or goat, traditionally used by cowherds.
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Alternative form of bouzouki [(music) A Greek long-necked plucked fretted lute with a sharp, metallic sound.]
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(music) A mandolin-shaped lute of Arab origin, with a long neck, movable frets and two or three strings played with a plectrum.
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Someone who plays a cajón.
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(music) A box-shaped percussion instrument played by slapping the front or rear faces (generally thin plywood) with the hands, fingers, or sometimes various implements.
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(music) A type of string instrument from Indonesia.
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An Indonesian xylophone of bamboo tubes.
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Alternative form of qanun [(music) A Near Eastern and Caucasian musical instrument related to the zither, dulcimer, or harp having either 26 strings and a single bridge, or 42 strings and two bridges.]
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Alternative spelling of carnyx [(music, historical) A bronze wind instrument used by Iron Age Celts (c. 200 B.C.E. – 200 C.E.) as a type of battle trumpet; held vertically when played, it was shaped like an elongated S with a mouthpiece at the lower end and a bell (often resembling an animal with an open mouth) at the upper end.]
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(music, chiefly in the plural) A single handheld percussion instrument consisting of a pair of concave shells or shell-shaped parts joined on one edge by string.
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A hypothetical musical instrument consisting of a line of cats fixed in place with their tails stretched out underneath a keyboard so that they cry out when keys are pressed.
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(music) A musical instrument consisting principally of a set of graduated steel plates struck with hammers that are activated by a keyboard.
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(music) An organ stop, deliberately slightly out of tune to give an undulating sound.
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A large unfretted stringed instrument of the violin family with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) C-G-D-A and an endpin to support its weight, usually played with a bow.
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(historical) An orchestral keyboard player; one who plays piano or harpsichord for an orchestra or ensemble.
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(music) A rāga in Carnatic music. It is the 16th melakarta rāga in the 72 melakarta rāga system.
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(often italicized) A traditional harp of central and southwest Asia
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A three-stringed plucked lute of Tuvan origin, like a long-necked banjo with a skin head over a heart or kidney-shaped body.
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(Carnatic music) The 26th melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic music.
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A bowed viol-like string instrument (a spike fiddle) with three strings, originating in the folk traditions of Georgia.
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A type of concert hammered dulcimer used primarily in the music of Eastern Europe.
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Alternative spelling of cimbalom [A type of concert hammered dulcimer used primarily in the music of Eastern Europe.]
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(music) A cylindrical valved instrument in the low brass family, closely related to the trombone and normally pitched a fifth or an octave below the tenor and bass trombones.
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(music) A fault in an organ valve which causes a pipe to sound continuously without the key having been pressed.
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(music) An ancient Greek stringed instrument, which could be considered a forerunner of the guitar
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Alternative form of cittern [A stringed instrument (chordophone), played with a plectrum (a pick), and most commonly possessing four wire strings and chromatic frets.]
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An archaic musical instrument whose exact form is uncertain, generally shown with four strings
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A musician who plays the citole
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A stringed instrument (chordophone), played with a plectrum (a pick), and most commonly possessing four wire strings and chromatic frets.
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(music) the second register of a clarinet.
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(music) A soft, sweet organ stop.
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An old musical instrument in the form of a spinet; the manichord or clavichord.
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Someone who plays the clarinet.
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Alternative form of clarsach [A small triangular wire-strung harp of Gaelic origin.]
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Someone who plays the classical guitar.
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A keyboard, especially of a musical instrument.
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(music, now chiefly historical) A harpsichord.
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(music) An early keyboard instrument producing a soft sound by means of metal blades (called tangents) attached to the inner ends of the keys gently striking the strings.
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A brass musical instrument that had three valves
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A musical instrument that had revolving glass cylinders that vibrated when cloth-covered levers, operated by a keyboard, were pressed against them
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A early form of harpsichord
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(music) An early keyboard instrument and ancestor of the harpsichord.
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(music) The keyboard of an organ, pianoforte, or harmonium.
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(music) A 19th-century musical instrument combining a harp with a keyboard.
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(music) An electrophonic keyboard instrument, an electronically amplified clavichord with a distinctive bright staccato sound.
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(music) A clonewheel organ
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(music) Any kind of electronic musical instrument which can emulate the sound of any of the tonewheel-based Hammond organs.
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A lute-like stringed instrument (chordophone), with four strings in double courses, played with a plectrum, and most associated with the traditional music of Romania.
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An early form of lute with a long neck; the mandora.
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(music) The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
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(music) A musical instrument, like the various accordions, that is a member of the free-reed family of musical instruments, typically having buttons on both ends.
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A musical instrument made from a large spiral seashell, somewhat like a trumpet.
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(music) A typically single-headed drum (membranophone) with one end larger than the other, and a body that slopes towards one end, forming a conical shape.
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(music) A type of tuba designed for marching. It is preferred by drum corps with large tuba sections because it offers a more rich sound than a sousaphone at the expense of volume.
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The largest musical instrument in the clarinet family, sounding two octaves below the soprano clarinet.
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Clipping of contrabass saxophone. [A member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments that is smaller than the subcontrabass saxophone but larger than the bass saxophone, with a range of D♭₁ to A₃ or similar.]
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A member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments that is smaller than the subcontrabass saxophone but larger than the bass saxophone, with a range of D♭₁ to A₃ or similar.
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(music) A larger version of the bassoon sounding one octave lower, having a technique similar to the bassoon but offers more resistance in every way.
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Someone who plays the contrabassoon.
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(music) A device that connects two or more keyboards of an organ.
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A performer on the cornet or horn.
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A French woodwind instrument resembling the crumhorn.
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(music) A Turkish musical instrument, like the ancient cimbalom.
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(music) Any of several related simple woodwind instruments having a bent horn
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Any of several stringed instruments of Latino origin; a Venezuelan ukulele-like instrument with four strings; a Puerto Rican violin-like instrument with ten strings in five courses (most commonly).
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(music, chiefly lutherie) The contrasting light and dark figure seen in wood used for stringed instrument making; the flame.
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(music) An early type of bassoon.
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Alternative form of cimbalom [A type of concert hammered dulcimer used primarily in the music of Eastern Europe.]
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Alternative form of cimbalom [A type of concert hammered dulcimer used primarily in the music of Eastern Europe.]
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(music) A large frame drum, resembling a tambourine, used to accompany popular and classical music in the Middle East.
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A large bowed two-stringed chordophone of Chinese origin, a tenor part of the erhu family of instruments.
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Alternative spelling of dayereh [(music) A large Central Asian frame drum with jingles attached, a type of tambourine.]
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A drum having two heads opposite one another, commonly used in the Hindu and Buddhist religions.
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(music) A double-sided disk-shaped drum of Nepalese origin.
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A monochord (one-stringed) zither-like stringed instrument (chordophone) of Vietnamese origin, played by plucking with a plectrum with one hand and using the other to vary the tension on the string to adjust the pitch.
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A type of lute with three strings, a hollow trapezoidal wooden body with an open back, and a very long neck, originating in traditional Vietnamese music (particularly ca trù).
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A moon-shaped kind of lute, a plucked, fretted lute with a round body and two strings, originating in traditional Vietnamese music.
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A vertical bowed fiddle-like string instrument with two strings, originating in the traditional and classical music of Vietnam.
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A small plucked zither with movable bridges and usually 16 or 17 strings, of Vietnamese origin.
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A plucked four-stringed chordophone with a long neck and a pear-shaped body, originating in the traditional music of Vietnam.
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A small notched, end-blown vertical flute made of bamboo or plastic, used in Korean music.
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(music) A type of goblet drum, originating in the Middle East and North Africa.
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A bass lute-like four-stringed chordophone of the ruan family of Chinese traditional instruments.
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A large Turkish double-headed drum, played with mallets.
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(music) An electric wooden experimental musical instrument, a kind of friction idiophone.
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A person who plays or practices with the daxophone.
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(music) A large Central Asian frame drum with jingles attached, a type of tambourine.
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(music) A form of Sundanese gamelan music using a subset of modified gamelan instruments with a particular mode of pelog scale.
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An Indian percussion instrument, a large membranophone.
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(music) A double-headed cylindrical drum of South Asian origin.
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Alternative form of dhimay [(music) A double-headed cylindrical drum of South Asian origin.]
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A vocal genre in Hindustani classical music
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(historical) An Ancient Greek wind instrument composed of two pipes connected at the base and often of different lengths, played similarly to an oboe.
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An ancient two-stringed lute.
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A musical instrument, endemic to the Top End of Australia, consisting of a long hollowed-out log which, when blown into, produces a low, deep mesmerising drone with sweeping rhythms.
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Alternative spelling of didgeridoo [A musical instrument, endemic to the Top End of Australia, consisting of a long hollowed-out log which, when blown into, produces a low, deep mesmerising drone with sweeping rhythms.]
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Alternative form of didgeridoo [A musical instrument, endemic to the Top End of Australia, consisting of a long hollowed-out log which, when blown into, produces a low, deep mesmerising drone with sweeping rhythms.]
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(music) A type of lightweight piano which reproduces the sound of a standard piano by electronic means. The keys are designed to feel like the keys of a real piano, and often to resemble them also.
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A large, bowed Chinese string instrument of the huqin family, with a large soundbox covered at one end with snakeskin.
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A transverse flute with a buzzing membrane used in Chinese music, usually made of bamboo.
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Alternative spelling of djembe [(music) A large, rope-tuned, skin-covered drum played with the bare hands, used in West African and some fusion music.]
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(music) An acoustic guitar with a metal resonator
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(music) A double bass (lowest-pitched of instruments of violin family).
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A double bassist; someone who plays the doghouse bass (double bass).
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Alternative spelling of dayereh [(music) A large Central Asian frame drum with jingles attached, a type of tambourine.]
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Alternative spelling of dayereh [(music) A large Central Asian frame drum with jingles attached, a type of tambourine.]
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A long-necked lute found in parts of Asia and Eastern Europe.
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(music) A round-bodied lute of East Slavic origin with either three or four strings.
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A long-necked plucked lute with two or three strings, of Tuvan origin, characterized by a skin head on both sides of the square wooden body.
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A stringed instrument resembling the mandolin.
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Alternative form of double bass [The largest stringed instrument of the violin family.]
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Alternative form of dutar [(music) A two-stringed lute with a long neck, found in Central Asia.]
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A traditional unfretted long-necked plucked lute used in the Himalayan region
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A percussive musical instrument spanned with a thin covering on at least one end for striking, forming an acoustic chamber; a membranophone.
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A collection of drums and other percussion instruments designed to be played together.
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A collection of drums and other percussion instruments designed to be played together.
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The study of the use of drums for communication, as in Africa.
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Alternative spelling of drum set [A collection of drums and other percussion instruments designed to be played together.]
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(music) An Armenian woodwind instrument.
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A contest of skill in which two people try to top each other's offerings, especially one involving musical ability.
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(music) An organ stop with a sweet tone.
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A stringed instrument, with strings stretched across a sounding board, usually trapezoidal. It is played on the lap or horizontally on a table. Some have their own legs. These musical instruments are played by plucking on the strings (traditionally with a quill) or by tapping on them (in the case of the hammer dulcimers).
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Someone who plays the dulcimer.
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A Spanish double reed musical instrument in the oboe family.
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A Middle Eastern goblet drum.
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(music) A two-stringed lute with a long neck, found in Central Asia.
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A one-stringed musical instrument from India.
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Someone who plays an electric cello.
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(music) electronic organ.
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(music) A type of lightweight piano with electronic pickups to amplify the sound. The strings, or string substitutes, are struck mechanically such that the action is similar to that of a normal piano.
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(music) A keyboard musical instrument, resembling a spinet, or upright, piano in size and general shape, in which tone is generated by electronic circuits and radiated by loudspeaker.
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(music, of a division within a pipe organ surrounded by a wooden box, one or more sides of which contain slats that can be opened or closed in order to increase or decrease volume) Having closed slats.
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(music) a woodwind instrument similar to an oboe, but larger and pitched a fifth lower
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Alternative spelling of erhu [A type of bowed spike fiddle having two strings, originating in China as part of the huqin family of string instruments.]
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(obsolete) A long-necked plucked lute with two strings, used in traditional Chinese music.
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A bowed string instrument of Indian origin, with a goatskin soundboard, sympathetic strings attached to a sitar-like neck, and twenty frets.
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(music, informal) A euphoniumist.
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A kind of upright piano.
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(music) A sound hole, shaped like a lowercase f, through the top surface of a string instrument.
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(dated) One who plays the fagotto, or bassoon.
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The lid, on a piano, that covers the keyboard
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(music) A type of small flute of the fipple family.
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Alternative spelling of flugelhorn [A brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider, conical bore, and usually with three valves, in the same B-flat pitch as many trumpets and cornets but with a more deeply conical mouthpiece than those. A bugle with valves.]
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A musical instrument that blends qualities of the trumpet and flugelhorn.
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(colloquial) A recorder, also a woodwind instrument.
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(music) An organ stop having the tone of a flute instrument.
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(music) An Ashanti talking drum
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A keyboard instrument; the smaller, quieter precursor to the pianoforte.
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a reed in a musical wind instrument whose edges do not overlap the edges of the opening over which it is fixed and that is used typically in the harmonium or concertina
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A coiled brass musical instrument, derived from the French hunting horn, which has rotary valves.
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Someone who plays a French horn.
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Such a stringed instrument.
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Synonym of Appalachian dulcimer
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(music) A drum (membranophone) that produces sound through friction.
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(music) A type of mixture organ stop.
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(music) A traditional Bulgarian stringed instrument, played with a bow, and most commonly featuring three main strings and up to sixteen sympathetic strings.
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An ornamentation in Indian classical music.
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(music) A xylophone-like instrument with wooden bars, used in Indonesian gamelan and kulintang music.
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(music) Name of a rāga in Carnatic music. It is the 3rd Melakarta rāga in the 72 melakarta rāga system of Carnatic music.
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(music) A musical instrument, consisting of an array of four hanging gongs, of Filipino origin.
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A two-stringed vertical fiddle-like chordophone (stringed instrument) used as a leading instrument in Cantonese music.
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(music) Name of a rāgam in Carnatic music. It is the thirteenth melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic music.
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A modern Chinese instrument that fuses the Western cello with a more traditional huqin-like design, with four strings tuned like a cello.
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An Indonesian musical instrument resembling a xylophone, used in gamelan music.
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A zither of ancient Korean origin, with frets and movable bridges, played by plucking with a stick.
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(music, now chiefly historical) A transverse flute.
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(music) A type of bell, usually constructed of brass, used in Hindu rituals.
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(music) An earthenware pot used as a percussion instrument in the Carnatic music of South India.
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A double-chambered bowl lute used by the Iranian and Baloch people, with three or four strings and a short neck without frets.
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Alternative spelling of gittern [A small, quill-plucked, gut-strung musical instrument, most commonly with three to four strings in doubles courses; it is a flat-backed predecessor of the guitar, and it originated around the 13th century, coming to Europe via Moorish Spain.]
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A piano that is built like a grand piano on its side with the small end at the top, often with a scroll at the top to suggest a giraffe's head;
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Eye dialect spelling of guitar. [(music) A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).]
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A small, quill-plucked, gut-strung musical instrument, most commonly with three to four strings in doubles courses; it is a flat-backed predecessor of the guitar, and it originated around the 13th century, coming to Europe via Moorish Spain.
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A musical instrument consisting of glasses (typically wine glasses) tuned by putting different amounts of liquid into them. Sound is produced by rubbing one's fingers around the rims of the glasses, causing them to vibrate.
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Someone who plays a glockenspiel.
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(music) A drum (membranophone) with a goblet-shaped body, usually one-headed.
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Alternative spelling of goje [A fiddle-like stringed instrument with one or two strings, and a resonator made from a gourd or calabash, originating among the Hausa of West Africa.]
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A fiddle-like stringed instrument with one or two strings, and a resonator made from a gourd or calabash, originating among the Hausa of West Africa.
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(music) A system of musical notation using Chinese characters, used in traditional Chinese music.
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(music) A temir komuz (a Jew's harp)
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(music) In ordinary square or upright pianos of London make, the escapement lever or jack, so made that it can be taken out and replaced with the key.
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(music) An early form of piano derived from the harpsichord
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(music, Japan) Abbreviation of guitar (of a rock band) [(music) A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).]
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Alternative spelling of gue (“Shetland fiddle”) [(Shetland) A kind of fiddle or violin played on the Shetland Islands.]
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Alternative spelling of guzheng [A zither-like stringed instrument with at least eighteen strings and moveable bridges, played with a plectrum, originating in the traditional music of China.]
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A musical instrument, a chordophone, most often neckless and with three strings, played in the lap and with a bow, of ancient Slavic origin.
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Alternative spelling of gadulka [(music) A traditional Bulgarian stringed instrument, played with a bow, and most commonly featuring three main strings and up to sixteen sympathetic strings.]
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(music) A kind of lute used by Berber musicians.
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Alternative form of guimbarde [A Jew's harp.]
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Alternative spelling of guembri [(music) A kind of lute used by Berber musicians.]
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(music) A musical instrument, a shaker, made of a hollow gourd with parallel notches cut in one side, and played by rubbing a stick or scraper ("pua") along the notches to produce a ratchet-like sound.
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(music) A musical instrument that is a hybrid between a small guitar and a ukulele.
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(music) A musical instrument that is a hybrid between a banjo and a mandolin (despite its name).
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(music) A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).
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Alternative form of guitar cello [Synonym of arpeggione]
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Alternative form of guitalele [(music) A musical instrument that is a hybrid between a small guitar and a ukulele.]
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Alternative spelling of guitarrón [(music) Any of several stringed instruments of Latin American origin.]
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(music) Any of several stringed instruments of Latin American origin.
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(music) A banjo-like string instrument, with fourteen strings in seven courses, tuned like a guitar and having a guitar-like neck.
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A plucked zither-like stringed instrument (chordophone), traditionally featuring seven unfretted strings, originating in ancient China.
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Alternative spelling of gusle [(music) A single-stringed lute-like stringed instrument with a bowl-shaped body, held vertically in the lap and played a bow, originating among the Slavic peoples in the Balkans, especially in the Dinarides region.]
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(music) A single-stringed lute-like stringed instrument with a bowl-shaped body, held vertically in the lap and played a bow, originating among the Slavic peoples in the Balkans, especially in the Dinarides region.
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A zither-like stringed instrument with at least eighteen strings and moveable bridges, played with a plectrum, originating in the traditional music of China.
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Alternative spelling of gusle [(music) A single-stringed lute-like stringed instrument with a bowl-shaped body, held vertically in the lap and played a bow, originating among the Slavic peoples in the Balkans, especially in the Dinarides region.]
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(music) A pentatonic instrument of Africa, resembling a xylophone.
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A percussion instrument from the Dominican Republic.
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(music) A musical instrument (chordophone) with a hollow soundbox, two strings made from silk, and a rod-like neck, of traditional Korean origin.
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A portable organ played by means of a crank turned by the hand.
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(music) A kind of upright piano whose strings are set in vibration not by the blow of the hammer but by indirectly transmitted friction.
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someone who plays a harmonica
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(dated, music) The harmonica.
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Alternative form of harmoniphone [A free-reed musical instrument played with a keyboard, in which the sounds are produced by reeds set in a tube, and vibrating under pressure from the breath; a precursor of the modern melodica.]
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A free-reed musical instrument played with a keyboard, in which the sounds are produced by reeds set in a tube, and vibrating under pressure from the breath; a precursor of the modern melodica.
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(music) A small keyboard instrument that consists of a series of reed pipes, which sound when one of the keys is pressed to open a valve that allows air to pass through.
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Someone who plays a harmonium.
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Any instrument of the same musicological type.
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A framework that fits around the neck and holds a harmonica up to the mouth so that it can be played while leaving the wearer's hands free, usually in order to play another instrument.
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(chiefly poetic) Synonym of begena
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Alternative form of harp guitar [(music) Any of several designs of guitars with at least one unstopped string that can be plucked, like that of a harp.]
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Alternative form of harp guitarist [Someone who plays a harp guitar.]
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(music) Synonym of harpist
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A harpist, especially one who plays a traditional harp without pedals.
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(music) A musical instrument with a keyboard that produces sound through a mechanical process. When the performer presses a key, a corresponding plectrum plucks a tuned string. Harpsichords originated in late medieval Europe and is one of the most important instruments used to perform Baroque music.
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(music) Name of a rāga in Carnatic music. It is the eighteenth melakarta rāga in the 72 melakarta rāga system of Carnatic music.
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Any of a family of organ stops that contain reeds.
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(music) A reed stop on an organ giving a similar sound.
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(music) Having a vibrating reed that is made from a different material than the instrument itself and is often removable.
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Obsolete form of hurdy-gurdy (“musical instrument”). [(music) A stringed instrument that produces a droning sound by turning a handle that connects to a wheel that rubs against a rosined string, with a keyboard also used to alter the pitch of the string.]
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(music) A metallophone of Japanese origin.
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(music) A home-made musical instrument consisting of a length of garden hose with a funnel inserted at one end. It is played by blowing it in the manner of a trumpet.
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(music) Either of a pair of gourds with seeds inside, used as musical instruments in Zimbabwe.
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(music) A drum (membranophone) with an hourglass-like shape.
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A wind instrument from China and the Shan State.
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(music) A stringed instrument that produces a droning sound by turning a handle that connects to a wheel that rubs against a rosined string, with a keyboard also used to alter the pitch of the string.
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An ancient musical instrument, the water organ.
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(music) The largest and lowest-pitched instrument in the flute family.
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(music) Having a vibrating reed that is an integral part of the instrument.
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Someone who plays an idiophone musical instrument.
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(music) A string instrument with a teardrop-shaped body and two strings, played with a bow, originating in Tuvan folk music.
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Alternative form of ektara [A single-stringed string instrument of Pakistan, India and Bangladesh.]
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(music) Synonym of imbal
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A group of experimental musical instruments invented by the Italian futurist Luigi Russolo in the early 20th century.
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An African musical instrument, a form of Jew's harp.
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(obsolete) An archaic stringed instrument of Japanese origin, traditionally made from snakeskin and characteristic of the Ryukyu islands; it is the ancestor of the shamisen.
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Alternative form of Jew's harp [A musical instrument consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo “tongue” attached to a frame. This tongue is placed in the performer’s mouth and plucked with the finger to produce a note of constant pitch. Melodies can be created by changing the shape of the mouth and causing different overtones.]
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Alternative spelling of jaw harp
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Alternative spelling of Jew's-trump. [(dated, music) Synonym of Jew's harp]
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Someone who plays a jawbone as a musical instrument.
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Alternative spelling of jaw harp
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Alternative spelling of jaw harp
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Alternative spelling of jaw harp
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Alternative spelling of jaw harp
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A saxophone-shaped double-belled brass instrument with a trumpet-like mouthpiece.
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Alternative spelling of djembe [(music) A large, rope-tuned, skin-covered drum played with the bare hands, used in West African and some fusion music.]
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Alternative spelling of djembe [(music) A large, rope-tuned, skin-covered drum played with the bare hands, used in West African and some fusion music.]
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Alternative spelling of Jew's harp [A musical instrument consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo “tongue” attached to a frame. This tongue is placed in the performer’s mouth and plucked with the finger to produce a note of constant pitch. Melodies can be created by changing the shape of the mouth and causing different overtones.]
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A musical instrument consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo “tongue” attached to a frame. This tongue is placed in the performer’s mouth and plucked with the finger to produce a note of constant pitch. Melodies can be created by changing the shape of the mouth and causing different overtones.
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Someone who plays a Jew's harp.
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Alternative form of Jew's harpist [Someone who plays a Jew's harp.]
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(dated) Alternative spelling of Jew's harp [A musical instrument consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo “tongue” attached to a frame. This tongue is placed in the performer’s mouth and plucked with the finger to produce a note of constant pitch. Melodies can be created by changing the shape of the mouth and causing different overtones.]
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(dated) Alternative spelling of Jew's harp [A musical instrument consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo “tongue” attached to a frame. This tongue is placed in the performer’s mouth and plucked with the finger to produce a note of constant pitch. Melodies can be created by changing the shape of the mouth and causing different overtones.]
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Alternative spelling of Jew's harp [A musical instrument consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo “tongue” attached to a frame. This tongue is placed in the performer’s mouth and plucked with the finger to produce a note of constant pitch. Melodies can be created by changing the shape of the mouth and causing different overtones.]
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Alternative spelling of Jew's harp [A musical instrument consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo “tongue” attached to a frame. This tongue is placed in the performer’s mouth and plucked with the finger to produce a note of constant pitch. Melodies can be created by changing the shape of the mouth and causing different overtones.]
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Alternative spelling of Jew's harp [A musical instrument consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo “tongue” attached to a frame. This tongue is placed in the performer’s mouth and plucked with the finger to produce a note of constant pitch. Melodies can be created by changing the shape of the mouth and causing different overtones.]
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Alternative spelling of Jew's harp [A musical instrument consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo “tongue” attached to a frame. This tongue is placed in the performer’s mouth and plucked with the finger to produce a note of constant pitch. Melodies can be created by changing the shape of the mouth and causing different overtones.]
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Alternative spelling of Jew's harp [A musical instrument consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo “tongue” attached to a frame. This tongue is placed in the performer’s mouth and plucked with the finger to produce a note of constant pitch. Melodies can be created by changing the shape of the mouth and causing different overtones.]
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(Carnatic music) Name of a rāgam in Carnatic music. It is the 19th melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic music.
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(music) Synonym of Jew's harp
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A royal war drum used by the Serer people.
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(music) A box zither with an open bottom, played by plucking, originating in traditional Sundanese music, especially tembang sunda and pantun sunda.
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(music) A long-necked stringed instrument (a spike fiddle) with a bowl-shaped body, traditionally featuring three silk strings but now more often four metal ones, played with a bow, common among the peoples of the Caucasus, Anatolia and the Near East.
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A Tibetan Buddhist ritual trumpet made from a human femur or tibia.
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A South Indian frame drum, similar to the tambourine.
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Alternative form of kantele [(music) A plucked string instrument (a zither) of the Baltic psaltery family, traditionally with five strings but now more widely varying, originating in the folk music of Finland, where it is seen as a national symbol.]
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A large, straight brass ceremonial trumpet played in parts of Northern India and Nepal.
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(music) A chromatic end-blown flute of Asia and eastern Europe.
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(music) Alternative spelling of gayageum [(music) A zither-like chordophone, most often with twelve strings, originating in the traditional music of Korea.]
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A flat musical instrument made of reeds or stems filled with seeds, used in the Mascarene Islands.
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Alternative form of kayamb (“musical instrument”) [A flat musical instrument made of reeds or stems filled with seeds, used in the Mascarene Islands.]
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Someone who plays the kazoo.
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(music) A set of pitched hanging knobbed gongs used in gamelan music.
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Alternative form of kendhang [A drum used in gamelan music.]
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A drum used in gamelan music.
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(music) A curved bugle with six stops.
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(music) A long Persian trumpet.
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(music) A particular organ stop
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(music) A large hemispherical brass percussion instrument (one of the timpani) with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting its tension.
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In musical instruments, one of the valve levers used to select notes, such as a lever opening a hole on a woodwind.
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(music) A component of many instruments including the piano, organ, and harpsichord consisting of usually black and white keys that cause different tones to be produced when struck.
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(music) Any musical instrument (a chordophone) that uses a keyboard to manipulate strings which produce sound, including a piano.
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(music) Synonym of nyckelharpa
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(music) A relatively lightweight keyboard or synthesizer supported by a strap around the neck and shoulders, as a guitar is supported by a guitar strap.
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Alternative spelling of khene [(music) A traditional musical instrument of Laos, being a type of bamboo mouth organ.]
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(music) Alternative form of kanjira [A South Indian frame drum, similar to the tambourine.]
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Alternative spelling of khene [(music) A traditional musical instrument of Laos, being a type of bamboo mouth organ.]
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(music) A traditional musical instrument of Laos, being a type of bamboo mouth organ.
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a stringed musical instrument from South East Asia, played with bamboo sticks.
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(music) A type of drum, from Bangladesh, that incorporates a plucked string
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Alternative spelling of komuz [(music) A stringed instrument (chordophone) played by plucking, with three strings and no frets, used throughout Central Asia but especially important as a national symbol of the Kyrgyz people.]
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(music) A bowed stringed instrument from the Uyghur Region of China, having four strings in four courses.
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A bowed musical instrument of Mongolia.
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(music) A form of Indian song composed of two matras
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Alternative spelling of khene [(music) A traditional musical instrument of Laos, being a type of bamboo mouth organ.]
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A bass drum played using a foot pedal.
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A stringed instrument of the Israelites.
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Alternative form of kit violin [(music) A very small long-necked violin that came in a variety of shapes and configurations, meant to be carried in a pocket and intended for dancing instructors to carry to accompany their students.]
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Alternative form of cithara [(music) An ancient Greek stringed instrument, which could be considered a forerunner of the guitar]
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(music) A lute-like stringed instrument traditionally made from a single block of wood, with a medium-length neck, originating in Ukrainian folk music.
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(music) Name of a rāgam in Carnatic music. It is the eleventh melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic music.
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(music) A type of bonang (a gong chime) with gongs laid out in a V or U-shape, used in the gamelan degung music of Sunda.
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(music) A stringed instrument (chordophone) played by plucking, with three strings and no frets, used throughout Central Asia but especially important as a national symbol of the Kyrgyz people.
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(music) A plucked stringed instrument (chordophone) with a harp-like construction, originating in ancient Chinese music as a horizontal instrument but now made to be played vertically, and with strings that are double to allow for techniques like vibrato.
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Alternative spelling of konghou [(music) A plucked stringed instrument (chordophone) with a harp-like construction, originating in ancient Chinese music as a horizontal instrument but now made to be played vertically, and with strings that are double to allow for techniques like vibrato.]
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A boat-shaped lute-like string instrument with one or two strings, originating among the Hausa people of West Africa.
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(music) A type of harp played in West Africa.
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(music) A type of mouth harp, of Chinese origin, usually made of bamboo or sometimes brass, and often consisting of more than one lamellae.
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Alternative form of krar [(music) A five-stringed, bowl-shaped lyre of Eritrea and Ethiopia.]
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(music) A five-stringed, bowl-shaped lyre of Eritrea and Ethiopia.
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Alternative form of krummhorn [A mediaeval and Renaissance wind instrument.]
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(music) A type of Jew's harp, of Filipino origin, most often made of bamboo.
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An ancient form of instrumental music of Southeast Asia, played on a row of small, horizontally-laid melodic gongs accompanied by larger suspended gongs and drums.
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Alternative spelling of khene [(music) A traditional musical instrument of Laos, being a type of bamboo mouth organ.]
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Alternative form of lamellophone [(music) Any of several musical instruments (percussion idiophones) in which the sound is produced by plucking a series of thin lamellae attached to a sounding board.]
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(music) Any of several musical instruments (percussion idiophones) in which the sound is produced by plucking a series of thin lamellae attached to a sounding board.
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(music) In gamelan music, a cycle of 16 beats in the sequence TWTN TPTN TPTN TPTG, where T indicates the strike of the ketuk, P the kempul, N the kenong, G the simultaneous gong and kenong, and W the wela, the pause where the kempul is omitted.
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(music) A traditional Icelandic or Shetlandian drone zither.
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Synonym of Appalachian dulcimer
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(music) A type of steel guitar held in the lap, usually with six strings and a square neck.
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Someone who plays the lap steel guitar.
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(music) A metal wind instrument of 19th-century China, resembling the oboe.
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A plucked string music instrument from Constantinople.
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Any musical instrument in which sound is produced by percussion of a stone.
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(music) A type of small archlute; a fretted and double-necked stringed musical instrument with double courses in the bass and two sets of tuning pegs.
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(music) A musical instrument characterized by extreme length, typically made out of an entire hollow tree trunk.
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(music, historical) A kind of organ whose keys project light beams through perforated revolving disks onto selenium cells in order to produce electrical vibrations that generate the sound.
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To play on a lute, or as if on a lute.
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Alternative form of lute guitar [(music) A stringed instrument that combines a normal guitar six-string layout over a lute-like bowl-shaped body, originating in German folk traditions.]
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A bowed instrument used in folk music in Crete, Greece.
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Any instrument of the same musicological classification; any yoke lute.
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(historical) An Ancient Greek musical instrument of unknown nature, probably a stringed instrument similar to a psaltery or harp.
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(music) A string instrument similar to a large mandolin
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(music) A stringed musical instrument resembling the mandolin, but of larger size and tuned lower.
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(music) a stringed instrument and a member of the lute family, having eight strings in four courses, frequently tuned as a violin, and with either a bowl-shaped back or a flat back
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(music) A musical instrument similar to a mandolin, but larger.
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(music) An early form of lute, that gave rise to the mandolin
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(music) A modal structure characterizing the art of music of countries in North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia.
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(music) A rāga in Carnatic music. It is the 25th melakarta rāga in the 72 melakarta rāga system of Carnatic music.
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(obsolete, music) A kind of percussion idiophone, like the marimba, but with either wooden or steel keys designed to be bowed as well as played normally, developed by J.C. Deagan in early 20th century United States.
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Someone who plays a marimba.
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A Caribbean musical instrument, a kind of lamellophone with metal strips over a hole in a resonating box.
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A percussion instrument consisting of many small chimes hanging from a bar, played by sweeping a finger or stick across them.
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(music) A fretless zither played via a system of metal hammers.
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a single-stringed bowed lute commonly used by Ethiopian azmaris.
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(music) In Indian music, the smallest rhythmic unit of a tala.
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(music) A stop on an organ that is operated by a hand or foot control rather than having to be manually set up in advance.
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(music) A collection of fundamental ragas (scales) in Carnatic music (South Indian classical music).
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(music) An early electronic keyboard instrument that played back prerecorded sounds.
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(music) An accordion where the melody-side keyboard is limited to the notes of diatonic scales in a small number of keys.
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(music) A small keyboard organ.
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A free-reed keyboard wind instrument.
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(obsolete) An accordion.
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(music, historical) A type of piano in which a system of hammers allows a note to be prolonged indefinitely
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The treble string of a lute.
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(music) An early monophonic analog synthesizer.
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(music) The eunuch flute, a kind of kazoo or membranophone.
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Alternative form of mridangam [(music) A percussion instrument used in southern Indian music, consisting of a two-sided drum whose body is usually made from a hollowed piece of jackfruit wood.]
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Alternative form of mridangam [(music) A percussion instrument used in southern Indian music, consisting of a two-sided drum whose body is usually made from a hollowed piece of jackfruit wood.]
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(music) A compound organ stop.
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A bent trumpet-like musical instrument used in sacred ceremonies among the Baka people.
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An organ stop, usually the open diapason, having its pipes on display as part of the organ case, or otherwise specially mounted.
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(music) Synonym of yueqin
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(music) Synonym of yueqin
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A traditional Mongolian bowed stringed instrument.
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(music) A type of Jew's harp (a lamellophone), a metal ring with two parallel forks and a tongue in the middle, used mainly in India and Pakistan.
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Synonym of Appalachian dulcimer
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(African-American Vernacular) Synonym of harmonica
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Someone who plays any of the instruments called a mouth organ (panpipes, Jew's harp, harmonica).
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Alternative form of mridangam (Indian drum) [(music) A percussion instrument used in southern Indian music, consisting of a two-sided drum whose body is usually made from a hollowed piece of jackfruit wood.]
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(music) A percussion instrument used in southern Indian music, consisting of a two-sided drum whose body is usually made from a hollowed piece of jackfruit wood.
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Alternative form of mridangam [(music) A percussion instrument used in southern Indian music, consisting of a two-sided drum whose body is usually made from a hollowed piece of jackfruit wood.]
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A folk musical composition of Azerbaijan in a complex form that weds classical poetry and musical improvisation.
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A small oboe without a cap for its reed, which evolved from the chanter or pipe of bagpipes; a piccolo oboe.
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The glass harp (musical instrument made up of a series of glasses) or similar earlier instrument.
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A Hebrew stringed instrument.
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Alternative form of nadaswaram [An Indian wind instrument with a large flaring bell.]
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Alternative form of naqareh (“type of drum”) [A Middle Eastern drum with a rounded back and a head made of hide, usually played in pairs.]
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(music) A musical instrument consisting of a wooden soundboard with metal nails attached, tuned to produce notes when played with a bow.
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A Middle Eastern drum with a rounded back and a head made of hide, usually played in pairs.
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(music) Name of a rāgam in Carnatic music. It is the 20th melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system.
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(music) A rāgam in Carnatic music. It is the tenth melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system.
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Alternative form of nadaswaram [An Indian wind instrument with a large flaring bell.]
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A valveless brass instrument that is able to play the notes of the harmonic series.
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(obsolete, music) A Hebrew stringed instrument, possibly the same as the nabla.
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Any of a set of drums used in Bantu music, traditionally made of wood covered with cow skin.
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A West African stringed instrument, shaped like a guitar.
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A coin-operated player piano, often elaborated with percussion, banjos, bells, whistles, and other musical instruments and noise-makers.
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(music) A talking drum from West Africa
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A traditional type of lyre with eight strings, used by the Luo people of Kenya.
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(music) Abbreviation of oboe. [A soprano and melody wind instrument in the modern orchestra and wind ensemble. It is a smaller instrument and generally made of grenadilla wood. It is a member of the double reed family.]
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An instrument of the oboe family, pitched in A below middle C.
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Alternative spelling of ocarina [(music) A woodwind musical instrument that is closed at both sides to produce an enclosed space, and punctured with finger holes.]
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(music) A Filipino musical instrument resembling the guitar.
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(music) An early electric keyboard instrument.
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An electronic musical instrument, an Italian version of the clavioline.
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(music) A type of plucked lamellophone originating in South America.
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(music) A certain stop in an organ, in which the pipes or tubes are formed like the mouthpiece of a flageolet at the end where the wind enters, and are open at the other end.
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(music) A keyed brass baritone bugle, now replaced by the tuba in orchestral music
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(historical, music) A player organ designed to mimic the sound of an orchestra, manufactured and used from the late 19th century to early 20th century.
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(music) A mechanical multiple musical instrument designed to sound like an orchestra or band.
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(music) A musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ), or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such.
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The keyboards, the pedals and associated stops of an organ, especially a pipe organ.
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(music) A large harmonium used instead of a pipe organ.
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A tuned metal or wooden tube connected mechanically or electrically to an organ console.
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An early mechanical accordion that played music encoded on rolls of perforated paper.
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(music) Any early form of hurdy-gurdy.
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(archaic) A Spanish wind instrument, possibly a crumhorn.
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(music) A musical instrument of the Renaissance, part of the cittern family, whose metal strings are tuned like a lute's and plucked with the fingers.
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(music) A short-necked and fretless plucked stringed instrument of the lute family, of Arab and Turkish origin.
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(music) A damper located above the hammers in a piano.
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A square double skinned frame drum, often with a bell inside, used in medieval Spanish/Moorish music.
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An ancient musical instrument; a bandore.
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Alternative form of pandura [(music) An Ancient Greek stringed instrument, a kind of lute with three strings that were stopped with a fingerboard to alter the tone, and with either a mandolin- or banjo-like shape.]
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(music) An Ancient Greek stringed instrument, a kind of lute with three strings that were stopped with a fingerboard to alter the tone, and with either a mandolin- or banjo-like shape.
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(music) A Georgian stringed instrument.
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(music, historical) A 19th-century keyboard instrument whose tone is produced by wheels rubbing on metal bars.
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Someone who plays a steelpan.
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Someone who plays panpipes.
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(music, historical) A very large dulcimer, invented around 1700.
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(music) A kind of small acoustic guitar, originally meant to be played (often by women) in the parlor of a Victorian-era home; more modern models are still used today, commonly in folk music.
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Alternative spelling of parlor guitar [(music) A kind of small acoustic guitar, originally meant to be played (often by women) in the parlor of a Victorian-era home; more modern models are still used today, commonly in folk music.]
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Synonym of pedal steel guitar
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(music) The elements of an electric steel guitar, mounted horizontally on a stand and played by a standing musician, using a combination of a steel bar and foot pedals to vary the pitch of the instrument.
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(music) A drum (membranophone) that has two heads and produces sound through two pellets, tied to the body of the drum and manipulated so as to strike the heads.
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(music) A six-holed flute-like instrument with a fipple. They have approximately a two octave range (sometimes a little higher). Stereotypically, they are made out of tin, but in reality they come in all sorts of varieties, including tin, brass, nickel, cane, polymer, etc.
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(music) An idiophone that produces sound when it vibrates due to being struck by an object that does not vibrate; a xylophone-like instrument played percussively.
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(music) A pianette, or small piano.
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(archaic) Pronunciation spelling of piano. [(music) a percussive keyboard musical instrument, usually ranging over seven octaves, with white and black colored keys, played by pressing these keys, causing hammers to strike strings]
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(music) an accordion with a keyboard similar to that of a piano
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(music) A mechanical piano which uses a roll of perforated paper to operate its keys, instead of being played by a pianist.
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One who plays the piccolo.
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(music) A particular organ stop
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(music) The largest of all musical instruments, played from an organ console which produces its sound by sending air through whistles and/or reeds called organ pipes, by direct mechanical action, or modernly, electrically.
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(music) An acoustic piano that is played automatically by mechanical means.
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A compact B-flat major trumpet, with the same range as a standard B-flat major trumpet.
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(music) A small pipe organ with one rank of flue pipes, sometimes arranged in two rows, to be played while strapped to the performer at a right angle.
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(music) A plucked guitar with a pear-shaped body and round soundholes, with twelve strings in six double courses, associated most prominently with Portuguese music, especially fado.
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Alternative form of positive organ [(music) A small pipe organ designed for portability, common in sacred and secular music between the 10th and 18th centuries.]
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Alternative form of positive organ [(music) A small pipe organ designed for portability, common in sacred and secular music between the 10th and 18th centuries.]
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(music) The façade of an organ.
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(music) A simple zither-like single-stringed chordophone (stringed instrument), played with a bow, of Scandinavian origin.
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(now historical, rare) Synonym of psaltery
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A psaltery (zither-like musical instrument)
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Alternative spelling of psaltery [(music) A zither-like musical instrument consisting of a soundboard with multiple strings, played by plucking the strings with the fingers or a plectrum.]
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A wind instrument, traditionally made from a gourd, played by snake charmers in India and Pakistan.
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A piano that has its strings slanting upward from left to right in a case that is shaped like a tall isosceles triangle.
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(countable, music) An organ stop having wooden pipes in the form of an inverted pyramid, giving very deep notes somewhat like those of a stopped diapason.
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Alternative spelling of qanun [(music) A Near Eastern and Caucasian musical instrument related to the zither, dulcimer, or harp having either 26 strings and a single bridge, or 42 strings and two bridges.]
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Alternative form of qanun [(music) A Near Eastern and Caucasian musical instrument related to the zither, dulcimer, or harp having either 26 strings and a single bridge, or 42 strings and two bridges.]
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(music) A Near Eastern and Caucasian musical instrument related to the zither, dulcimer, or harp having either 26 strings and a single bridge, or 42 strings and two bridges.
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A sounding stone, a Chinese musical instrument.
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Tablature score collections for the Chinese musical instrument, the guqin.
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(music) Alternative form of kobyz [(music) A stringed instrument traditionally made of a single piece of wood, with either two or four strings and played with a bow, of traditional Kazakh origin.]
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Alternative form of cuatro [Any of several stringed instruments of Latino origin; a Venezuelan ukulele-like instrument with four strings; a Puerto Rican violin-like instrument with ten strings in five courses (most commonly).]
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(music) The tube of a musical instrument.
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(historical) A five-stringed viol common in France in the 18th century.
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An Arabian stringed instrument, played by plucking or with a bow.
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(music) An old wind instrument of the double bassoon kind, having ventages but not keys.
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(music) An improvised guitar-like string instrument made from a discarded oil can, with or without frets, most commonly with three or four strings made from either fishing line or a bicycle brake wire, originating in the folk music of Southern Africa.
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Alternative form of ransingha [A primitive S-shaped metal trumpet of India and Nepal.]
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(music) In a pipe organ, a set of pipes of a certain quality for which each pipe corresponds to one key or pedal.
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(music) A rāgam in Carnatic music. It is the 72nd melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic music.
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(music) A raga in Carnatic music (musical scale of South Indian classical music). It is the second melakarta raga in the 72 melakarta raga system of Carnatic music.
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(music) An ancient bowed stringed instrument of India, Sri Lanka, and surrounding areas, possibly an ancestor of the violin.
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a fretless plucked long-necked lute used in Uyghur traditional music
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(music) A stringed musical instrument, related to the lute, used especially in Islamic countries
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(countable, music) Part of the mouthpiece of certain woodwind instruments, comprising a thin piece of wood or metal which shakes very quickly to produce sound when a musician blows over it.
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(music) Any musical wind instrument played by blowing air through a reed, such as the oboe or the clarinet.
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Someone who plays a reed instrument.
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(music) A keyboard musical instrument of which the harmonium and the American organ are the principal types.
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(music) An organ stop having the tone of a reed instrument.
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(music) A small, portable organ whose sound is produced by beating reeds without amplifying resonators. Its tone is keen and rich in harmonics. The regal was common in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; today it has been revived for the performance of music from those times.
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Alternative form of reyong [(music) A type of gong chime, a set of gongs laid out on a rack and sometimes played by up to four people simultaneously, used in the gamelan music of Bali.]
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A two-headed Brazilian drum used in samba ensembles.
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(music) A kind of frame drum (tambourine) with jingles attached, originating in traditional Arab music.
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Alternative form of rubab [A traditional lute-like musical instrument of Central Asia.]
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(music) An archaic kind of early guitar, from the classical and romantic eras, with six single strings and a long, fretted neck.
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Any of several types of xylophone used in traditional Cambodian music
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A Cambodian metallophone.
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A xylophone used in the Khmer classical music of Cambodia.
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A low-pitched xylophone used in the Khmer classical music of Cambodia.
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(music) A kind of zither, played like a guitar, used in the Middle Ages in church music.
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A traditional lute-like musical instrument of Central Asia.
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A traditional drum from Senegal, generally played with one hand and one stick.
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Alternative spelling of sacred harp [(music) A genre of Christian music based on shape-note singing.]
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A pipe organ stop of 4-foot or 2-foot pitch.
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(music) A labial pipe organ stop of eight-foot pitch.
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(music) An ancient form of triangular harp having a very sharp, shrill tone.
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Alternative form of shamisen [(music) A kind of three-stringed Japanese fretless lute.]
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(music) A three-stringed instrument of Okinawan origin, the precursor to the shamisen
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A musical instrument consisting of a kalimba mounted on the head of a drum.
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Alternative form of santur [A type of hammered dulcimer played in Persian music]
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An Indian string instrument, a trapezoidal hammered dulcimer with seventy strings, believed to be derived from the Persian santur.
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Alternative form of santur [A type of hammered dulcimer played in Persian music]
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A type of hammered dulcimer played in Persian music
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(music) A rāga in Carnatic music. It is the 27th melakarta rāga in the 72 melakarta rāga system of Carnatic music.
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(music) A type of stringed instrument featuring anywhere from three to thirty strings and a hollow soundbox partially covered with an animal skin, played vertically with a bow, originating in the traditional music of India and Nepal.
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(music) A fretless string instrument used mainly in Indian classical music.
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(music) An arched harp used in Burmese traditional music.
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saxophonist; someone who plays the sax
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A person who owns, plays or practices with the saxophone.
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An obsolete valved brasswind instrument inspired by the Ancient Roman cornu and tuba.
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(music) A type of ancient Chinese plucked zither.
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A musical instrument consisting of a gourd surrounded by a net of beads.
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(music) A kind of acoustic guitar of French origin, used in the early to mid-20th century.
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A six- or seven-stringed Egyptian harp.
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(music) An early wind instrument with a keyboard, resembling a cross between a reed organ and an accordion, which makes its sound by the action of air being blown across metallic reeds.
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Alternative spelling of sarinda [(music) A type of stringed instrument featuring anywhere from three to thirty strings and a hollow soundbox partially covered with an animal skin, played vertically with a bow, originating in the traditional music of India and Nepal.]
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(music) An obsolete wind instrument in the brass family, whose shape is suggestive of a snake (Wikipedia article).
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a Persian musical instrument
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Alternative form of shehnai [(music) An ancient reeded woodwind instrument from India with a long slim body and bulbous sound bowl, with or without keys.]
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(music) A type of short-necked lute, similar to an archlute, originating in traditional Persian music.
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(music) A Japanese flute which is tuned to a pentatonic scale and is end-blown like a recorder instead of being held transversely like the Western transverse flute.
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Alternative form of shehnai [(music) An ancient reeded woodwind instrument from India with a long slim body and bulbous sound bowl, with or without keys.]
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Alternative form of shehnai [(music) An ancient reeded woodwind instrument from India with a long slim body and bulbous sound bowl, with or without keys.]
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A Chinese wind instrument, a free-reed mouth organ consisting of 13 or more bamboo pipes of various lengths, which are fixed at their bases in a wind chest made from a dried gourd (or, more recently, wood or chrome-plated brass).
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A Japanese free reed musical instrument similar to the sheng.
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A reed used singly in many wind instruments, which vibrate to produce a sonorous sound.
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(music) A three-stringed, skin-covered bass plucked lute used by the Gnawa people of Morocco.
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(music) A set of tuned wooden bells of Lithuanian origin, held in trapezoidal racks with several vertical rows, and played by a pair of wooden sticks.
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A Javanese metallophone.
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(music) A trumpet fitted with a slide (an early form of a slide trombone)
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(music) A type of idiophone, consisting of a material (usually bamboo or wood) hollowed out and possessing one or more slits on the top.
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(nonstandard, rare) A wind instrument.
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(music) A kind of bombardon.
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(music) a musical instrument, especially a saxophone or recorder, that is a pitch higher than the soprano instrument of its class
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Clipping of sopranino saxophone. [A member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments that is smaller than the soprano saxophone but larger than the soprillo, with a range of D♭₄ to A♭₆ or similar.]
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A member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments that is smaller than the soprano saxophone but larger than the soprillo, with a range of D♭₄ to A♭₆ or similar.
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Clipping of soprano saxophone. [A member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments that is smaller than the alto saxophone but larger than the sopranino saxophone, with a range of A♭₃ to E₆ or similar.]
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Someone who plays the soprano saxophone.
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(music) The smallest member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments, one size smaller than the sopranino saxophone and with a range of A♭₄ to E♭₇ or similar.
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Alternative form of zurna [(music) A double-reed outdoor wind instrument, usually accompanied by a davul (bass drum) in Anatolian folk music.]
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(music) Alternative form of zurna [(music) A double-reed outdoor wind instrument, usually accompanied by a davul (bass drum) in Anatolian folk music.]
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A Chinese musical instrument, usually L-shaped, made of stone or jade, hung and struck as a xylophone.
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A valved brass instrument with the same length as a tuba, but shaped differently so that the bell is above the head, that the valves are situated directly in front of the musical instruments and a few inches above the waist, and that most of the weight rests on one shoulder.
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(music) A key on a woodwind instrument of the clarinet family (cf octave key on other instruments) which induces the instrument to overblow.
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Obsolete form of spinet (“musical instrument”). [(music) A short, compact harpsichord or piano.]
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(historical) A cone-shaped instrument by means of which spirits were supposed to speak during a séance.
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A piano with a horizontal frame and an oblong case.
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A Cambodian wind instrument that uses a quadruple reed to produce sound.
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Alternative form of shruti box [(music) A musical instrument resembling a harmonium, used to provide a droning accompaniment in Indian classical music.]
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Alternative form of steelpan [(music, countable) A percussion instrument consisting of a drum made of steel, originally from Trinidad.]
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A piano made by Steinway & Sons, an American-German piano company founded in 1853.
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(informal) A Fender Stratocaster electric guitar.
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(music) A type of mechanically-played barrel organ designed to be played in the street.
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A type of bowed zither, similar in shape to a viola.
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A double bassist; someone who plays the string bass (double bass).
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(music) An organ stop having the tone of a string instrument.
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(music) A violin that amplifies its sound through an attached metal resonator.
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A person who plays the subcontrabass saxophone.
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(music) A brass instrument with a cylindrical bore and four valves.
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An Indonesian flute made of bamboo
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(music) A double-reed wind instrument with seven to nine holes, related to the shehnai.
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A hybrid tenor trombone in B♭ that has both a slide like a standard trombone and a set of valves like a valve trombone.
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(music) Alternative form of zurna [(music) A double-reed outdoor wind instrument, usually accompanied by a davul (bass drum) in Anatolian folk music.]
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(music) A stringed instrument with a long neck, played vertically and with a bow, especially associated with the Baloch people.
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(music) A rāga in Carnatic music. It is the 17th melakarta rāga in the 72 melakarta rāga system.
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(music) An old folk Russian wind instrument of the end-blown flute type.
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(music) A section of a pipe organ in which the pipes are enclosed in a swell box
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Alternative spelling of shamisen [(music) A kind of three-stringed Japanese fretless lute.]
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(music) A stringed instrument similar to a guitar with sympathetic strings like a sitar.
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(music) A Russian double-reed wind instrument, similar in form to the zurna.
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Alternative spelling of sekere [A musical instrument consisting of a gourd surrounded by a net of beads.]
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Synonym of table steel guitar
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In traditional music, a small drum played with a single stick, leaving the player's other hand free to play a melody on a three-holed pipe.
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A little drum; a tabret.
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Someone who plays a tabor.
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(music) Alternative spelling of tabor [A small drum.]
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(music) A flat gong (without knob) that is struck with a felt-covered hammer.
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A two-headed Dominican drum used in merengue music.
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A type of drum in the French Caribbean, made of a hollowed-out tree trunk covered in animal skin.
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(music) A small shallow drum.
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(music) A type of long-necked lute-like stringed instrument found throughout the world but originating in the traditional music of India.
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Any of a family of long-necked lutes popular in Eastern and Central Europe.
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(music) Any of a number of different types of long-necked lutes found in the Balkans.
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(music) Name of a rāgam in Carnatic music. It is the sixth melakarta rāgam in the 72 melakarta rāgam system of Carnatic music.
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Alternative spelling of tambura [(music) A type of long-necked lute-like stringed instrument found throughout the world but originating in the traditional music of India.]
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Alternative spelling of tambura [(music) A type of long-necked lute-like stringed instrument found throughout the world but originating in the traditional music of India.]
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A Persian long-necked, waisted string instrument, shared by many cultures and countries in the Middle East and the Caucasus.
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A kind of African kettledrum.
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(music) a reed instrument originating from Hungary
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An electric instrument, a variant of the shamisen.
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(historical) music played and transmitted by telharmonium
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An Asian percussion instrument made of hollow wood with a large slit.
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Someone who plays a tenor banjo.
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A type of small guitar-like stringed instrument with four strings, usually with four strings and a normal guitar-shaped body, originating in American jazz music.
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Clipping of tenor saxophone. [A member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments that is smaller than the baritone saxophone but larger than the alto saxophone, with a range of A♭₂ to E₅ or similar.]
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A member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments that is smaller than the baritone saxophone but larger than the alto saxophone, with a range of A♭₂ to E₅ or similar.
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A person who plays the tenor saxophone.
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theremin (musical instrument)
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(music) Synonym of figured bass
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(music) A pair of tunable single-headed, metal-shelled cylindrical drums, used in Latin American music
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(transitive) To accompany with the sound of the timbrel.
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Obsolete form of tambourine. [A percussion instrument consisting of a small, usually wooden, hoop closed on one side with a drum frame and featuring jingling metal disks on the tread; it is most often held in the hand and shaken rhythmically; by extension, any frame drum.]
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(music) The set of precision kettledrums in an orchestra.
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Someone who plays the timpani.
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A traditional musical instrument of the Canary Islands and Murcia, having four or more commonly five strings, and similar in size to a ukulele but with a distinctive semi-round back.
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(music) A stringed instrument, a type of small theorbo.
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(music) Any of several kinds of small, plucked stringed-instrument of the guitar family, used in the traditional musics of Spain and various Latin American nations.
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A small joined pair of drums, beaten with the hands.
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(music) A type of goblet drum used heavily in Persian music.
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A mechanical apparatus, used principally in Hammond organs, that converts the spinning movement of an electric motor into electronic musical notes.
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(music) A plucked two-string lute traditionally used by the Altai people.
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(music) A Greek metal drum.
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Abbreviation of trumpet. [A musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat; by extension, any type of lip-vibrated aerophone, most often valveless and not chromatic.]
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(music) Abbreviation of trombone. [A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B♭ˌ (contra B♭).]
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(uncommon) Abbreviation of trombone. [A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B♭ˌ (contra B♭).]
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(countable, historical, music) An ancient triangular harp of Oriental origin which had four strings and was often used for banquet music. Also called sabbeka, sackbut, sambuca.
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(music) A sort of triangular drum.
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(music) A type of multi-course harp employing three parallel rows of strings instead of the more common single row, a common version being the Welsh triple harp used in Welsh folk music.
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(music) An ancient stringed instrument, resembling the Delphic tripod in form.
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(music) A Middle Ages European string instrument with a long, slender and triangular-shaped body, featuring one main string and sometimes additional sympathetic strings, known for an extremely loud sound making it useful for signalling between ships, and for a distinctive ethereal tone (harmonic overtones) created by the player fingering the string at precise intervals below the point where the string is to be bowed, rather than above as most similar instruments.
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(film, television) A kind of extendable support for attaching lighting elements to a set.
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(obsolete) A trumpet; a trump.
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(music) A powerful, solo reed stop on an organ with a piercing, brassy tone.
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A musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat; by extension, any type of lip-vibrated aerophone, most often valveless and not chromatic.
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(music) Synonym of tromba marina
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Someone who plays a trumpet.
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(rare) A trumpeter; someone who plays a trumpet.
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(poetic, archaic) The sound of a trumpet.
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(music) A cymbalom, or hammered dulcimer, used in klezmer music.
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(music) The Ukrainian version of the hammered dulcimer.
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Someone who plays the tuba.
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(music) A fanfare played on one or more trumpets.
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A traditional Basque percussion instrument.
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(music) A Greek long-necked fretted lute.
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(music) A bronze metallophone used in the classical gamelan music of Indonesia.
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(music) Alternative form of ukulele [A small four-stringed guitar.]
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(music) A musical instrument resembling a ukelele and violin.
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A small four-stringed guitar.
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Alternative form of erhu (“Chinese musical instrument”) [A type of bowed spike fiddle having two strings, originating in China as part of the huqin family of string instruments.]
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A hybrid trombone having both a set of three piston valves and a slide to vary the pitch, the slide being positioned within the valve section and shorter than a standard trombone slide, only covering four positions instead of the usual seven, and not locking.
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(music) A form of bamboo zither from Madagascar
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(music) A rāga in Carnatic music. It is the 24th melakarta rāga in the 72 melakarta rāga system of Carnatic music.
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(music) A plucked stringed instrument with five or seven steel strings stretched on a long fretted finger-board over two gourds, used mostly in Carnatic Indian classical music.
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(music) Any type of flute that is held vertically when played.
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A type of flute with an enclosed rather than cylindrical body - i.e. a vessel rather than a tube - such as the ocarina, xun, etc.
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Someone who plays the vibraphone.
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(music) A medieval stringed instrument similar to a violin.
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A musician who plays the vielle.
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(music) A guitar-like string instrument of 15th- and 16th-century Spain, usually with six courses or sets of strings (twelve strings in total).
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(music) A stringed instrument related to the violin family, but held in the lap between the legs like a cello, usually with C-holes, a flat back, a fretted neck and six strings, played with an underhanded bow hold
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A stringed instrument of the violin family, somewhat larger than a violin, played under the chin, and having a deeper tone.
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A person who plays the violin
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Synonym of violinist argument
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(music, computing) An online software application designed to simulate playing a piano (or other keyboard instrument) on a personal computer, mobile device or a tablet computer.
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(music) A type of reed organ
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(music) an organ stop giving a gentle tremolo effect; the voix céleste
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(nautical) Alternative form of viol [(music) A stringed instrument related to the violin family, but held in the lap between the legs like a cello, usually with C-holes, a flat back, a fretted neck and six strings, played with an underhanded bow hold]
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(music) A brass instrument that combines tonal elements of the French horn and the trombone.
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Synonym of hourglass drum
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(music) A type of stringed instrument, a cittern of German origin, with nine strings in five courses.
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(music) Any membranophone characterized by the filling of the drum chamber with some amount of water to create a resonant sound.
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(music) A form of pipe organ in which the air is generated by moving water.
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Someone who plays a water organ.
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(music) A type of harp associated with traditional music of Wales, originally a simple single-string instrument and now more usually referring to a type of triple harp.
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A transverse (side-blown) woodwind instrument made of metal or wood.
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(music) A bass musical instrument played in the United States; a descendant of the washtub bass.
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(music) Any musical instrument that produces sound when air flows through it; a woodwind instrument or brass instrument.
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(music) A component of the action of a mechanical keyboard instrument such as a piano or organ
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(music) A percussion instrument consisting of a hollow block of wood struck with a drumstick.
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(music) A musical instrument in which sound is produced by blowing against an edge or by vibrating a thin piece of wood or metal known as the reed, and in which the pitch is governed by the resonant frequencies of an enclosed air column.
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Synonym of world's smallest violin
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A traditional lutelike string instrument of West Africa.
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A kind of musical instrument, resembling a harmonichord and a tetrachordon.
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An ancient Chinese vertical bowed string instrument with two strings.
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(music) A globular vessel flute made of clay or ceramic originating from China.
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Alternative spelling of xylo-marimba [The xylorimba.]
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Someone who plays a xylophone.
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(music) A pitched percussion instrument corresponding to a xylophone with an extended range.
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A Chinese musical instrument, a hammered dulcimer traditionally fitted with bronze strings.
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A traditional plucked bridge zither played in Mongolia.
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(music) A fretless harp of ancient Tamil origin, with a variable number of gut strings, characterized by a boat-shaped resonator.
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(music) Any chordophone (stringed instrument) with two arms extending from a body to a crossbar (a yoke), and strings, parallel to the soundboard, connecting the body to the yoke.
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Alternative spelling of yueqin [(music) A small short-necked Chinese lute-like stringed instrument (chordophone) with a round, hollow wooden body and four strings in pairs in its traditional form, now more often with three or four unpaired strings.]
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(music) A small short-necked Chinese lute-like stringed instrument (chordophone) with a round, hollow wooden body and four strings in pairs in its traditional form, now more often with three or four unpaired strings.
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(music, obsolete) Alternative form of yueqin [(music) A small short-necked Chinese lute-like stringed instrument (chordophone) with a round, hollow wooden body and four strings in pairs in its traditional form, now more often with three or four unpaired strings.]
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(music) A Brazilian bass drum that performers wear and is tapped with both hands.
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A Spanish friction drum, consisting of a ceramic pot with a skin and a pole in the middle. To play it, the stick is rubbed to make a deep sound
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A stringed instrument of sub-Saharan Africa.
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A Russian (or broader Slavic) wind instrument with one or two pipes.
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Alternative spelling of zhonghu [(music) A large low-pitched lute-like string instrument (chordophone) similar to the erhu, usually with two strings and played with a bow; it is part of the huqin family of instruments originating in Chinese traditional music.]
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Alternative spelling of zhonghu [(music) A large low-pitched lute-like string instrument (chordophone) similar to the erhu, usually with two strings and played with a bow; it is part of the huqin family of instruments originating in Chinese traditional music.]
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(music) A large low-pitched lute-like string instrument (chordophone) similar to the erhu, usually with two strings and played with a bow; it is part of the huqin family of instruments originating in Chinese traditional music.
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(music) A plucked long-necked lute-like string instrument (chordophone) of Chinese origin, a medium-sized tenor ruan with four strings and twenty-four frets.
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(music, historical) An ancient Chinese string instrument thought to have had a rectangular zither-like body with silk strings played with a bow.
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(music) A two-stringed chordophone (string instrument) with a fretless fingerboard, played with a bow, of Chinese origin and especially associated with Henan and Shandong.
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One of a set of small finger cymbals used in belly dancing and similar performances.
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Alternative form of cimbalom [A type of concert hammered dulcimer used primarily in the music of Eastern Europe.]
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Someone who plays the zither
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(music) A guitar-like musical instrument of Romania, having originally two strings and now four or five.
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(music) A little flute or flageolet, especially that which is used to teach birds.
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(music) Alternative form of zurna [(music) A double-reed outdoor wind instrument, usually accompanied by a davul (bass drum) in Anatolian folk music.]
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(music) Alternative form of zurna [(music) A double-reed outdoor wind instrument, usually accompanied by a davul (bass drum) in Anatolian folk music.]
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(music) A double-reed outdoor wind instrument, usually accompanied by a davul (bass drum) in Anatolian folk music.
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Alternative spelling of aeolian harp [(music) An open box over which strings are stretched that sound when the wind passes over them]
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Alternative form of ukulele [A small four-stringed guitar.]
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