MUSICAL INSTRUMENT Synonyms

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

• a tubular wind instrument; the player blows air into a bag and squeezes it out through the drone

• a stringed instrument that has a triangular body and three strings

• a stringed instrument of the guitar family that has long neck and circular body

• a double-reed instrument; the tenor of the oboe family

• a musical instrument consisting of graduated steel plates that are struck by hammers activated by a keyboard

• a large stringed instrument; seated player holds it upright while playing

• a single-reed instrument with a straight tube

• a medieval brass instrument with a clear shrill tone

• loud and clear

• blow the clarion

• proclaim on, or as if on, a clarion

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

• a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end

• the sound of a drum

• a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends

• a cylindrical metal container, commonly used for shipping or storage of liquids

• a hollow cast iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes

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

• make a rhythmic sound

• play a percussion instrument

• study intensively, as before an exam

• a stringed instrument used in American folk music; an elliptical body and a fretted fingerboard and three strings

• a trapezoidal zither whose metal strings are struck with light hammers

• a bass horn (brass wind instrument) that is the tenor of the tuba family

• 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

• avoid (one's assigned duties)

• commit fraud and steal from one's employer

• play the violin or fiddle

• play on a violin

• manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination

• play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly

• try to fix or mend

• a high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown

• a tall narrow wineglass

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

• form flutes in

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

• a stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking

• 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

• a free-reeded instrument with a piano keyboard in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows

• a chordophone that has a triangular frame consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and a curved neck; the strings stretched between the neck and the soundbox are plucked with the fingers

• a pair of curved vertical supports for a lampshade

• 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

• come back to

• play the harp