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Noun
S: (n) piano, pianoforte, forte-piano (a keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds)
S: (n) accordion, squeeze box (a portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player)
S: (n) celesta (a musical instrument consisting of graduated steel plates that are struck by hammers activated by a keyboard)
S: (n) clavichord (an early stringed instrument like a piano but with more delicate sound)
S: (n) organ, pipe organ (wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard)
S: (n) piano, pianoforte, forte-piano (a keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds)
S: (n) synthesizer, synthesiser ((music) an electronic instrument (usually played with a keyboard) that generates and modifies sounds electronically and can imitate a variety of other musical instruments)
S: (n) dulcimer (a stringed instrument used in American folk music; an elliptical body and a fretted fingerboard and three strings)
S: (n) guitar (a stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking)
S: (n) koto (Japanese stringed instrument that resembles a zither; has a rectangular wooden sounding board and usually 13 silk strings that are plucked with the fingers)
S: (n) piano, pianoforte, forte-piano (a keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds)
S: (n) psaltery (an ancient stringed instrument similar to the lyre or zither but having a trapezoidal sounding board under the strings)
S: (n) samisen, shamisen (a Japanese stringed instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and three strings and a fretted fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox; played with a plectrum)
S: (n) 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)
S: (n) zither, cither, zithern (a musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers)
S: (n) bones, castanets, clappers, finger cymbals ((used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance)
S: (n) chime, bell, gong (a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument)
S: (n) cymbal (a percussion instrument consisting of a concave brass disk; makes a loud crashing sound when hit with a drumstick or when two are struck together)
S: (n) drum, membranophone, tympan (a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end)
S: (n) glockenspiel, orchestral bells (a percussion instrument consisting of a set of graduated metal bars mounted on a frame and played with small hammers)
S: (n) gong, tam-tam (a percussion instrument consisting of a metal plate that is struck with a softheaded drumstick)
S: (n) kettle, kettledrum, tympanum, tympani, timpani (a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it)
S: (n) lagerphone (an Australian percussion instrument used for playing bush music; a long stick with bottle caps nailed loosely to it; played by hitting it with a stick or banging it on the ground)
S: (n) maraca (a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow gourd containing pebbles or beans; often played in pairs)
S: (n) marimba, xylophone (a percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets)
S: (n) piano, pianoforte, forte-piano (a keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds)
S: (n) rain stick (a percussion instrument that is made from a dried cactus branch that is hollowed out and filled with small pebbles and capped at both ends; makes the sound of falling rain when tilted; origin was in Chile where tribesmen used it in ceremonies to bring rain)
S: (n) steel drum (a concave percussion instrument made from the metal top of an oil drum; has an array of flattened areas that produce different tones when struck (of Caribbean origin))
S: (n) triangle (a percussion instrument consisting of a metal bar bent in the shape of an open triangle)
S: (n) vibraphone, vibraharp, vibes (a percussion instrument similar to a xylophone but having metal bars and rotating disks in the resonators that produce a vibrato sound)