| 单词 | musical instrument |
| 释义 | musical instrument (once / 2905 pages) n WORD FAMILY musical instrument: musical instruments USAGE EXAMPLESThe program is free for all students, and they receive free dance attire, shoes, costuming, performance attire and musical instruments. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) I did not play any musical instrument until my early 50s, and am continuing to improve. The Guardian(Dec 30, 2016) “This paper is the first to convince me that some type of mineral infusion into wood might cause superior sound in a musical instrument.” New York Times(Dec 20, 2016) n any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds Syn|Hypo|Hyper instrument barrel organ, grind organ, hand organ, hurdy gurdy, hurdy-gurdy, street organ a musical instrument that makes music by rotation of a cylinder studded with pegs bassthe member with the lowest range of a family of musical instruments calliope, steam organa musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles played from a keyboard electronic instrument, electronic musical instrumenta musical instrument that generates sounds electronically jew's harp, jews' harp, mouth bowa small lyre-shaped musical instrument that is placed between the teeth and played by twanging a wire tongue while changing the shape of the mouth cavity keyboard instrumenta musical instrument that is played by means of a keyboard music box, musical boxproduces music by means of pins on a revolving cylinder that strike the tuned teeth of a comb-like metal plate percussion instrument, percussive instrumenta musical instrument in which the sound is produced by one object striking another stringed instrumenta musical instrument in which taut strings provide the source of sound wind, wind instrumenta musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath accordion, piano accordion, squeeze boxa portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player banjoa stringed instrument of the guitar family that has long neck and circular body bass fiddle, bass viol, bull fiddle, contrabass, double bass, string basslargest and lowest member of the violin family bass guitarthe guitar with six strings that has the lowest pitch bass horn, sousaphone, tubathe lowest brass wind instrument bombard, bombardona large shawm; the bass member of the shawm family bones, castanets, clappers, finger cymbalsa percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance bowed stringed instrument, stringstringed instruments that are played with a bow brass, brass instrumenta wind instrument that consists of a brass tube (usually of variable length) that is blown by means of a cup-shaped or funnel-shaped mouthpiece celestaa musical instrument consisting of graduated steel plates that are struck by hammers activated by a keyboard bell, chime, gonga percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument chordophonea stringed instrument of the group including harps, lutes, lyres, and zithers clavichordan early stringed instrument like a piano but with more delicate sound Klavier, claviera stringed instrument that has a keyboard cymbala percussion instrument consisting of a concave brass disk; makes a loud crashing sound when hit with a drumstick or when two are struck together drum, membranophone, tympana musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end dulcimera stringed instrument used in American folk music; an elliptical body and a fretted fingerboard and three strings Hammond organ, electric organ, electronic organ, organ(music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ free-reed instrumenta wind instrument with a free reed glockenspiel, orchestral bellsa percussion instrument consisting of a set of graduated metal bars mounted on a frame and played with small hammers gong, tam-tama percussion instrument consisting of a metal plate that is struck with a softheaded drumstick guitara stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking kazooa toy wind instrument that has a membrane that makes a sound when you hum into the mouthpiece kettle, kettledrum, timpani, tympani, tympanuma large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it kotoJapanese stringed instrument that resembles a zither; has a rectangular wooden sounding board and usually 13 silk strings that are plucked with the fingers lagerphonean Australian percussion instrument used for playing bush music; a long stick with bottle caps nailed loosely to it; played by hitting it with a stick or banging it on the ground maracaa percussion instrument consisting of a hollow gourd containing pebbles or beans; often played in pairs marimba, xylophonea percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets ocarina, sweet potatoegg-shaped terra cotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes organ, pipe organwind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard organ pipe, pipe, pipeworkthe flues and stops on a pipe organ forte-piano, piano, pianofortea keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds pipea tubular wind instrument post hornwind instrument used by postilions of the 18th and 19th centuries psalteryan ancient stringed instrument similar to the lyre or zither but having a trapezoidal sounding board under the strings rain sticka percussion instrument that is made from a dried cactus branch that is hollowed out and filled with small pebbles and capped at both ends; makes the sound of falling rain when tilted; origin was in Chile where tribesmen used it in ceremonies to bring rain samisen, shamisena Japanese stringed instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and three strings and a fretted fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox; played with a plectrum sitara stringed instrument of India; has a long neck and movable frets; has 6 or 7 metal strings for playing and usually 13 resonating strings steel druma concave percussion instrument made from the metal top of an oil drum; has an array of flattened areas that produce different tones when struck (of Caribbean origin) synthesiser, synthesizer(music) an electronic instrument (usually played with a keyboard) that generates and modifies sounds electronically and can imitate a variety of other musical instruments thereminan electronic musical instrument; melodies can be played by moving the right hand between two rods that serve as antennas to control pitch; the left hand controls phrasing trianglea percussion instrument consisting of a metal bar bent in the shape of an open triangle vibes, vibraharp, vibraphonea percussion instrument similar to a xylophone but having metal bars and rotating disks in the resonators that produce a vibrato sound whistlea small wind instrument that produces a whistling sound by blowing into it wood, woodwind, woodwind instrumentany wind instrument other than the brass instruments cither, zither, zitherna musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers device an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose |
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