musical instrument

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(Roget's IV) n. Types of musical instruments include: lyre, bell, tubular bells, chimes, pipes of Pan, flute, piccolo, flageolet, oboe, clarinet, licorice stick*, alto clarinet, bass clarinet, A clarinet, E-flat clarinet, B-flat clarinet, bassoon, contrabassoon, fife, bagpipe, ocarina, sweet potato*, trombone, bazooka, French horn, English horn, basset horn, tuba, baritone, sousaphone, helicon, cornet, trumpet, flugelhorn, alpenhorn, saxophone, virginal, dulcimer, spinet, harpsichord, harmonica, Hammer Klavier (German), piano, clavichord, organ, pipe organ, reed organ, mouth organ, Jew's harp, harp, vina, calabash, tambourine, ukelele, Hawaiian guitar, guitar, electric guitar, flamenco guitar, bass guitar, sitar, steel guitar, banjo, mandolin, lute, theorbo, viola, violin, fiddle*, violoncello, cello, bass viol, Xylophone, marimba, Glockenspiel (German), vibraharp, vibraphone, vibes*, cymbal, drum, accordian, concertina, zamar, tom-tom, magoudhi, balalaika, kokiri, samisen, cheng, siao, kin, che, koto, crowd, recorder, grand piano, concert piano, baby grand piano, upright piano, spinet, player piano, tuning fork, calliope, synthesizer, drums, cymbals, tambourine. See also drum , flute , horn 1 , organ , piano .

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(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

woodwind, stringed instrument, percussive instrument, keyboard instrument, brass, *noisemaker.

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keyboard instruments

• accordion with button keyboard: concertina

• automatic piano: player piano

• bell-like soundmaker in ‘‘Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy’’: celesta

• electronic sound recreator: synthesizer

• organ, steam whistle: calliope

• piano, full-sized: grand piano

• piano, largest: concert piano

• piano, predecessor: clavichord, harpsichord

• piano, slang: *eighty-eights, *ivories

• piano, small grand: baby grand

• piano, space-saving: upright

• plucked instead of struck by hammers: harpsichord

• squeezebox, handheld: accordion, *squeezebox

• wind or electric-generated keyboard: organ

percussion instruments

• bell: campanella

• block, wooden: wood block, clog box

• Caribbean tinkling drum: steel drum

• clackers, wooden stick: claves

• clappers clicked rhythmically: castanets

• cow’s bell: cowbell

• crash, sizzlemaker: cymbal

• Cuban drums played with fingers, hands: bongos

• drum for rolls, flourishes, fills: tom-tom

• hanging cymbal struck with mallet: gong

• kettle drum: timpani

• largest, booming drum: bass drum, *kick drum

• rasping gourd: guiro

• rat tat tat beatkeeper: snare drum

• rattling skeleton-soundmaker: xylophone

• seed-filled gourd: maraca

• xylophonelike with resonant tubes: marimba

• xylophonelike with steel bars: glockenspiel, bell lyre

stringed instruments

• Appalachian lap instrument: dulcimer, zither

• barrel organ: hurdy gurdy

• bowed, quivering four-string: violin

• country twanger: banjo

• dulcimer struck with small hammers: hammered dulcimer

• electric guitar, slang: *axe

• guitar, hollow-bodied: acoustic

• guitar, low-voiced four-string: bass

• guitar, very small: ukelele

• harplike: lyre

• Hawaiian guitar with nasal tone: Hawaiian guitar

• heavenly-sounding 46-string: harp

• Japanese national instrument: koto

• lute, East Indian long-necked: sitar

• lute, small four string: mandolin

• middle ages guitar: lute

• rasper, husky: cello

• violin, large, velvety or husky-sounding: viola

• zither: dulcimer

wind instruments

• Alps horn: alpenhorn

• alto clarinet with upcurving bell: basset horn

• bass tuba: helicon, sousaphone

• brass instrument with three keys, flaring bell: trumpet

• clarinet nickname: *licorice stick

• clarion blasters: brass

• cornet with wider bore: flugelhorn

• double-reeded woodwind: oboe

• elephant tusk horn: oliphant

• English flute: recorder

• flute, small: fife, piccolo

• flute, whistlelike: recorder, flageolet, fipple flute

• jazz woodwind: saxaphone

• *licorice stick, reeded: clarinet

• military horn: bugle, cornet

• pan pipes: pan flute

• potatolike whistle: ocarina

• sad, comedic soundmaker: bassoon

• Scottish skirling and droning windbag: bagpipes

• slide horn: trombone

• trumpet with high pitch: Bach trumpet

• tuba, tenor: euphonium

• wooden: woodwind