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an instrument of the violin family, larger than the violin and tuned a fifth lower

2. a particular method or technique for playing the guitar. The term slide refers to the motion of the slide along the strings. Instead of altering the pitch of the strings in the normal manner (by pressing the string against frets), a slide is placed upon the string to vary its vibrating length, and pitch.

3.
A usually fretted stringed instrument having a narrow neck and a hollow circular body with a covering of plastic or stretched skin on which the bridge rests.

4.
a common percussion instrument. Cymbals consist of thin, normally round plates of various alloys; see cymbal making for a discussion of their manufacture.

5.
a percussive musical instrument, or a warning bell.

6.
a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called 'zils'.

7.
a musical instrument that adds a 'buzzing' timbral quality to a player's voice when the player vocalizes into it.

8.
any bowed string musical instrument, most often the violin. It is also a colloquial term for the instrument used by players in all genres, including classical music. Fiddle playing, or fiddling, refers to various styles of music.

9.
a half-size flute, and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments. The piccolo has most of the same fingerings as its larger sibling, the standard transverse flute, but the sound it produces is an octave higher than written.

10.
(also referred to as a lingual pipe) is an organ pipe that is sounded by a vibrating brass strip known as a reed.

11.
(also known as the corno and French horn) is a brass instrument made of more than 20 feet .

12.
a Chinese two-stringed musical instrument held in the lap and played with a bow

13. a musical instrument commonly used in churches or cathedrals that produces sound by driving pressurized air (called wind) through pipes selected via a keyboard.

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a percussion instrument and an idiophone. Its form is usually a hollow, cup-shaped acoustic resonator, which vibrates upon being struck.

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a musical instrument that is shaped like a box and that is held in your hands and played by pulling its sides apart and then pushing them together while pressing buttons and keys

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a large brass wind instrument of a very low pitch, with three to six valves and a broad bell typically facing upward.

17.
a collection of drums and other percussion instruments set up to be played by a single player.

18.
a musical instrument in the lute family (plucked, or strummed) usually with four courses of strings, tuned in perfect fifths and plucked with a plectrum.

19. a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard, played either with the hands or with the feet.

20.
The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor clefs, and occasionally the treble.

21.
a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening.

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a stringed musical instrument of treble pitch, played with a horsehair bow. The classical European violin was developed in the 16th century. It has four strings and a body of characteristic rounded shape, narrowed at the middle and with two f-shaped sound holes.

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a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or; struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument. The percussion family is believed to include the oldest musical instruments, following the human voice.

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a musical instrument played using a keyboard. The most common of these is the piano

25.
also known as the jaw harp, mouth harp, Ozark harp, trump, or juice harp, is a lamellophone instrument, which is in the category of plucked idiophones - it consists of a flexible metal or bamboo tongue or reed attached to a frame.

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