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Musical instrument
A device, object, contrivance or machine used to produce musical notes or sounds.
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A device, object, contrivance or machine used to produce musical notes or sounds.
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| instrumentnoun | A device used to produce music. |
| string instrumentnoun | (music) A musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. |
| wind instrumentnoun | (music) Any musical instrument that produces sound when air flows through it. |
| stringed instrumentnoun | (music) Any musical instrument in which taut strings are plucked, bowed or struck in order to produce a sound. |
| musical boxnoun | (music) Any of various devices that play tunes by means of pins, on a rotating disk or revolving drum, that strike or pluck metal teeth; a music box. |
| metallophonenoun | Any musical instrument consisting of tuned metal bars which are struck to make sound. |
| musical sawnoun | (music) A musical instrument consisting of a thin sheet of metal, or sometimes a saw, usually played with a bow. |
| idiophonenoun | Any musical instrument that produces its sound by its own vibration (without any strings or membranes). |
| tremulantnoun | (music) A mechanical component of a musical organ, designed to add vibration to the sounds produced by the instrument. |
| chordophonenoun | (music) Any musical instrument that produces sound from one or more vibrating strings; a string instrument. |
| armonicanoun | A musical instrument made of blown-glass bowls mounted on a spindle turned originally by a foot pedal, and played with wetted fingers, producing an ethereal sound. Technically, it is a crystallophone. |
| woodwindnoun | (music) Any (typically wooden) musical instrument that produces sound by the player blowing into it, through a reed, or across an opening. Woodwind instruments include the recorder, flute, piccolo, clarinet, oboe, cor anglais and bassoon. |
| brass instrumentnoun | (music) Any musical instrument whose tone is produced by vibration of the lips as the player blows into a mouthpiece (or tubular resonator). |
| stringnoun | (countable, uncountable) A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together. |
| toolnoun | Any physical device meant to ease or do a task. |
| electrophonenoun | (music) any instrument designed to create sounds using electric currents |
| accordionnoun | A box-shaped musical instrument played by compressing or expanding its bellows while pressing its buttons or its keys, causing pallets to open, which allow air to flow across strips of brass or steel (reeds). |
| woodwind instrumentnoun | (music) A musical instrument in which sound is produced by blowing against an edge or by vibrating a thin piece of wood or metal known as the reed, and in which the pitch is governed by the resonant frequencies of an enclosed air column. |
| resonatornoun | Any object or system that resonates |
| machine headnoun | (music) A geared apparatus for tuning stringed instruments by adjusting the tension of the strings. |
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