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Number of Blossarys: 7
English (EN) Portable, box-shaped instrument having metal reeds which are made to vibrate by the access of air from bellows, actuated by player's hands pushing and pulling.
Fretted instrument of five or more strings, plucked with fingers or plectrum; taken over from U.S. Negro slaves by black-faced minstrel shows, and also used in early jazz.
Percussion instruments of hollowed-out wooden surfaces rhythmically clicked together by the fingers of Spanish dancer; in the orchestra the clicking pieces of wood are often mounted for convenience ...
A type of instrument (old, but still in use for traditional music, e.g. in Eastern Europe) in which strings stretched over a sound-board are struck with hammers.
Woodwind instrument of oboe type, but standing a fifth lower than the oboe, and written as a transposing instrument a fifth higher than sounding.
Term historically meaning a kind if high-pitched wooden flute, usually without keys; but today's military 'drum and fife' band includes low-pitched flutes as well as high ones.
Plucked, fretted string instrument: it exists in various types of which the principal one came to other European countries from Spain and is therefore sometimes called 'Spanish Guitar'.
By: abbeygrech