Musical instrument
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Crossword Answers

4 letters

TUBA
The lowest brass wind instrument

OBOE
A slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece

HARP
A small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole

DRUM
Small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise

5 letters

FLUTE
A groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column)

ORGAN
A fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function

PIANO
A keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds

SITAR
A stringed instrument of India; has a long neck and movable frets; has 6 or 7 metal strings for playing and usually 13 resonating strings

VIOLA
Any of the numerous plants of the genus Viola

CELLO
A large stringed instrument; seated player holds it upright while playing

6 letters

GUITAR
A stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking

VIOLIN
Bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow

ZITHER
A musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers

CORNET
A brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves

7 letters

PICCOLO
A small flute; pitched an octave above the standard flute

OCARINA
Egg-shaped terra cotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes

TRUMPET
A brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves

8 letters

KEYBOARD
Holder consisting of an arrangement of hooks on which keys or locks can be hung

9 letters

XYLOPHONE
A percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets

ACCORDION
A portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player

10 letters

GRANDPIANO
A piano with the strings on a horizontal harp-shaped frame; usually supported by three legs

DOUBLEBASS
Largest and lowest member of the violin family

VIBRAPHONE
A percussion instrument similar to a xylophone but having metal bars and rotating disks in the resonators that produce a vibrato sound

TAMBOURINE
A shallow drum with a single drumhead and with metallic disks in the sides

MOUTHORGAN
A small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole

11 letters

BARRELORGAN
A musical instrument that makes music by rotation of a cylinder studded with pegs

HARPSICHORD
A clavier with strings that are plucked by plectra mounted on pivots

12 letters

GLOCKENSPIEL
A percussion instrument consisting of a set of graduated metal bars mounted on a frame and played with small hammers