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To trumpet (proclaim loudly)
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The action of playing imaginary drums, usually to accompany music that one is listening to.
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A Breton band composed of bagpipes, bombards, and drums.
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One who plays the bagpipes.
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action of the verb to bagpipe; playing the bagpipes
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A percussive instrument made of metal or other hard material, typically but not always in the shape of an inverted cup with a flared rim, which resonates when struck.
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Alternative form of bell metal [A hard alloy of about four parts of copper to one of tin, used for making bells.]
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(informal) A style of religious worship emphasising high ritual, including use of vestments, bells and incense, especially that of High Church Anglicanism and Catholicism.
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(music, bagpipes) A type of grace note movement that quickly switches between low-A and low-G several times, producing a low rippling sound.
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One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
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A fiddle (musical instrument).
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The lowest-pitched bell of a carillon.
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Alternative spelling of diddley bow [(music) A one-stringed instrument (monochord) that consists of a wire string attached to something solid like the side of a house, and played with a piece of metal or glass, originating in the African American traditional music of Mississippi in the United States.]
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A low, loud sound, originally produced by brass instruments and a prepared piano but sometimes made synthetically, included in film and trailer scores to increase audience stress
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(usually in the plural, music) A set of customized hardware that is part of a drum kit. Breakables typically consist of: the drummer's cymbals including high-hats, the snare drum, the kick pedal and the drummer's stool.
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A tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim
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(music) A capped double-reed instrument.
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A church bell, particularly a large bell used in medieval church steeples or towers.
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(historical) A smallish suspended bell used in medieval monastic cloisters.
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A tune adapted to be played by musical bells.
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The pipe of a bagpipe on which the melody is played.
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The chanter or flute of a bagpipe.
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A handbell used for summoning monks.
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(music) An embellishment played on the lowest note of a chanter of a bagpipe, consisting of a series of grace notes produced by rapid sequential lifting of the fingers of the lower hand.
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Alternative spelling of diddley bow [(music) A one-stringed instrument (monochord) that consists of a wire string attached to something solid like the side of a house, and played with a piece of metal or glass, originating in the African American traditional music of Mississippi in the United States.]
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One of the low-toned tubes of a bagpipe.
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(informal) A drumstick (of chicken, turkey, etc).
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(music) A work played exclusively by the percussion section of a modern marching band, descended from early military marches, primarily as a purposefully emphasized means of providing a beat to marchers.
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(dated, slang) A travelling salesman.
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(informal) A drumstick of poultry.
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(obsolete) A drummer; one who plays a drum.
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Alternative form of fingerhole [A hole in a musical instrument to be covered with a finger to modify the pitch.]
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(music) In the manner of a flute.
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(intransitive) To make a flutelike sound.
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(music) One of the pieces of metal, plastic or wood across the neck of a guitar or other string instrument that marks where a finger should be positioned to depress a string as it is played.
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Jazz slang for a saxophone
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(music) A small bell designed to be rung by hand.
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(countable, singular or plural, music) A shaken musical instrument (an idiophone) made from the jawbone of an animal and shaken such that the teeth vibrate in their sockets to produce sound.
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(music) A small piece of metal attached to a musical instrument, such as a tambourine, so as to make a jangling sound when the instrument is played.
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Synonym of diddley bow (“type of stringed instrument”)
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(music) A relatively small bass drum forming part of a drum kit and struck with a beater attached to a pedal.
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(obsolete) A trumpet call for rousing soldiers; a reveille.
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(historical) A bell that is sounded remotely by means of a magnetic current.
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(campanology) Bell changes rung on eight bells.
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(obsolete, music) A little bagpipe.
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The hallmark sound of a fretless bass guitar played with a certain technique, where treble frequencies increase gradually after the attack.
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A gong with a central raised boss or nipple, often made of a different metal to the rest of the gong.
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A very small bell used in the choir during consecration.
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Alternative form of pipa [A pear-shaped plucked lute from China.]
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A sound that parps, as of a horn or trumpet.
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The thickened rim of a bell, struck by the clapper.
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Obsolete form of fife. [A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music]
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Alternative form of pibroch [A series of musical variations for the bagpipes, usually martial or funerary in nature.]
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(transitive, intransitive) To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute.
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(intransitive) To begin singing or playing musical notes on a pipe or similar wind instrument.
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(campanology) A descending diatonic scale played on a ring of bells.
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a signal call given on a cornet or trumpet for entrance or exit on a theatrical stage
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(music) The pipes of Pan; a pan flute.
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To make a sound like a tambourine.
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A bugle call played by the United States Armed Forces at dusk, during flag ceremonies, and at military funerals.
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(theater) A box of metal balls which is shaken to create a thunder sound effect.
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(intransitive) To play the timbrel.
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A set of bells or metal plates used as a musical instrument or as a toy.
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(very rare) A pedal-coupler in organ-building.
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(music) A trill or shake.
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The sound made by beating a drum.
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(music) an object so suspended inside a bell that it may hit the bell and cause it to ring; a clapper
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A set of decorative metallic or wooden tubular bells that sound when blown by the wind.
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(archaic) Bellows for an organ.
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Alternative form of wind chimes [(music) A chime constructed from tubes, rods, bells, etc. made of wood, glass, metal or ceramic, suspended outside a building in such a way that they tinkle pleasantly when moved by the wind.]
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A type of large, bronze bell originating in ancient China, played as a musical instrument to indicate the beat.
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