![]() ![]() ![]() It is plucked with the fingers or a plectrum baby grand a small grand piano, approximately 5 feet long Bach trumpet a modern small three-valved trumpet for playing clarino passages in Bach's music bagpipes any of a family of musical wind instruments in which sounds are produced in reed pipes supplied with air from a bag inflated either by the player's mouth, as in the Irish bagpipes or Highland bagpipes of Scotland, or by arm-operated bellows, as in the Northumbrian bagpipes balalaika a plucked musical instrument, usually having a triangular body and three strings: used chiefly for Russian folk music bandore a 16th-century plucked musical instrument resembling a lute but larger and fitted with seven pairs of metal strings banjo a stringed musical instrument with a long neck (usually fretted) and a circular drumlike body overlaid with parchment, plucked with the fingers or a plectrum barrel organ an instrument consisting of a cylinder turned by a handle and having pins on it that interrupt the air flow to certain pipes, thereby playing any of a number of tunes baryton a bass viol with sympathetic strings as well as its six main strings bass drum a large shallow drum of low and indefinite pitch basset horn an obsolete woodwind instrument of the clarinet family bass guitar a guitar that has the same pitch and tuning as a double bass, usually electrically amplified bassoon a woodwind instrument, the tenor of the oboe family. Notes are produced by means of studlike keys aeolian harp a stringed instrument that produces a musical sound when a current of air or wind passes over the strings alphorn or alpenhorn a wind instrument used in the Swiss Alps, consisting of a very long tube of wood or bark with a cornet-like mouthpiece althorn a valved brass musical instrument belonging to the saxhorn or flügelhorn families Autoharp (trademark) a zither-like musical instrument used in country-and-western music, equipped with button-controlled dampers that can prevent selected strings from sounding, thus allowing chords to be played. ![]() Accordion a portable box-shaped instrument of the reed organ family, consisting of metallic reeds that are made to vibrate by air from a set of bellows controlled by the player's hands. ![]()
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