Musical Instrument

HARP

A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame formed by a sound box, a pillar, and a curved neck, and having strings stretched between the sound box and the neck that are plucked with the fingers.

Anything that resembles this instrument, esp. in having a row of parallel strings or wires, as various mechanical devices or kitchen implements for slicing cheese.

A vertical metal frame shaped to bend around the bulb in a standing lamp and used to support a lamp shade.

DRUM

A musical percussion instrument consisting of a hollow, usually cylindrical, body covered at one or both ends with a tightly stretched membrane, or head, which is struck with the hand, a stick, or a pair of sticks, and typically produces a booming, tapping, or hollow sound.

Any hollow tree or similar object or device used in this way.

The sound produced by such an instrument, object, or device.

PIANO

A musical instrument in which felt-covered hammers, operated from a keyboard, strike the metal strings.

A musical instrument with a manual keyboard actuating hammers that strike wire strings, producing sounds that may be softened or sustained by means of pedals.

FLUTE

A high-pitched woodwind instrument consisting of a slender tube closed at one end with keys and finger holes on the side and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown.
Also called transverse flute.

Any of various similar reedless woodwind instruments, such as the recorder.

An organ stops whose flue pipe produces a flutelike tone.

CELLO

A four-stringed musical instrument of the violin family, pitched lower than the viola but higher than the double bass.

The second largest member of the violin family, rested vertically on the floor between the performer's knees when being played.