Musical instrument

Words referring to musical instruments and people who play a particular instrument.

• What is the general term for musical instrument?
  musical instrument band instrument
• What are the types of instruments that have strings that you pluck?
  stringed instrument strings piano harp guitar banjo violin fiddle viola cello bass fiddle
• What are the types of instruments that you hit?
  percussion instruments drum snare drum bass drum tympani cymbal bell xylophone marimba rattle castanet bangle jingle
• What are the types of instruments that you blow into?
  wind instruments winds reeds organ flute clarinet oboe brass instruments horn trumpet cornet bugle trombone French horn baritone horn tuba harmonica bagpipes pipe
• What words refer to playing a musical instrument?
  play pluck fiddle blast beat
• What words refer to a person who plays a musical instrument?
  instrumentalist player pianist violinist drummer trumpeter flutist
• What words describe the sound made by a musical instrument?
  blast (of a trumpet) blare crash (of a cymbal) timbre
• What words refer to the parts of musical instruments?
  mouthpiece bell key keyboard drumstick reed bow string fret pick organ pipe