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accordion An accordion is an instrument for playing music. You hold an accordion in your arms to play it. It has black and white keys like a piano, but sound is made when air is forced through it.
bass1 A bass is an instrument for playing music. It is also called a double bass. A bass is a large instrument that is made of wood and has four strings. It looks like a very large violin, and you play it standing up. [1/2 definitions]
bassoon A bassoon is a kind of instrument for playing music. It is a tall instrument and can play some very low notes. The main part of its body is a long wooden tube. A smaller, metal tube is attached to it, and this has a part that you blow through to make sounds.
bugle1 A bugle is a simple instrument that you blow through to make sounds. A bugle is made of a metal called brass. A bugle is similar to a trumpet, but you only use your mouth and not your fingers to make sounds with it. A bugle is sometimes used to wake up soldiers in the morning.
cello A cello is an instrument for playing music. It is made of wood and has four strings. It is similar to a violin, but it is much bigger and can make lower notes. People sit while playing the cello, and a long stick attached to the bottom of the cello touches the floor.
clarinet A clarinet is an instrument for playing music. A clarinet is usually black and has the shape of a long tube. The tube has holes in it and keys that you can press to cover the holes and change the sound. To make a sound, you put your mouth at one end of the clarinet and blow air through it.
double bass The double bass is an instrument for playing music. It is a large instrument that is made of wood and has four strings. It looks like a very large violin, and you play it standing up.
drum A drum is an instrument for playing music. It has a round shape and is hollow inside. It is covered at one or both ends by a tight material. You play a drum by beating it with sticks or your hands. [1/2 definitions]
flute A flute is an instrument for playing music. It is a long, straight tube made of metal or wood. It has small holes in it that you cover or leave open to change the sound. You play a flute by blowing into it.
French horn A French horn is an instrument for playing music. It has a round shape, and it is made out of brass.
guitar A guitar is an instrument for playing music. It has a hollow body and a long neck. Attached to the guitar are strings that you press on with one hand and move across with your other hand to make sounds.
harmonica A harmonica is a small musical instrument that you hold up to your mouth with your hands to play. You blow air in or out through the harmonica to make sounds.
harp A harp is a kind of musical instrument. It has many strings that are held together by a large frame. The strings are longer at one end of the frame and shorter at the other. When you play a harp, you put both arms around the harp, and you pull the strings lightly with your fingers.
horn A horn is also an instrument for playing music. Horns are usually made of a shiny metal called brass. The main part of a horn is a tube that is narrow at the end where you put your mouth. At the other end, the tube becomes wide and open like a bell. You make sounds by blowing through the tube. [1/3 definitions]
instrument An instrument is something you use to make music. There are many kinds of instruments, and they make many kinds of sounds. A piano, a violin, a trumpet, and a drum are some of the many instruments that people play. [2 definitions]
key1 A key is a part of a machine or instrument that does something when you press it. Pianos and computers have keys. [1/2 definitions]
keyboard A keyboard is something you use when you type on a computer or play an instrument like a piano. A keyboard is made up of things called keys that you push down with your fingers to type a letter or play a note. On a piano, some of the keys are black, and some are white.
oboe An oboe is a kind of instrument for making music. Oboes are usually made of wood. An oboe has the shape of a tube, and you blow through it to make a sound. The body of the oboe has holes that the fingers cover or uncover to change the notes. The oboe makes a very special kind of sound because the part of the oboe that goes in your mouth is quite different from what other similar instruments have.
piano1 A piano is a large instrument for playing music. It has many black and white keys that you press with your fingers to make sounds. When you press the keys, small hammers in the back of the piano hit against wire strings. That is how the sounds of a piano are made.
player Someone who plays an instrument is called a player. Someone who plays a guitar is a guitar player. [1/2 definitions]
rhythm When a noise repeats many times in a regular way, we say that it makes a rhythm. A drum is an instrument that people often use to make rhythm in music.