MUSICAL VOCABULARY

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MUSICIAN / VERB / MUSICAL INSTRUMENT

• Wind instruments with bellows or keys

• Wind instruments which are turned or spun

• Wind instruments which are blown

• Wind instruments which are blown and use a bag

• Wind instruments (brass)

• Percussion instruments with a vibrating surface

• Percussion instruments with vibrating bars

• Stringed instruments-1

• Stringed instruments-2

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MUSICIAN

VERB (S)

MUSICAL INSTRUMENT

• accordionist

• concertinist

• harmonium player

• melodeon player

• organist

• to play the ...... (expertly / well / beautifully / badly / with feeling/ like an amateur)

1-WIND INSTRUMENTS (with bellows &/or keys)

• accordion

• concertina

• harmonium

• melodeon

• organ (pipe/church)

• barrel organist

• humming top spinner

• to turn the handle of the barrel organ

• to spin the humming top

2-WIND INSTRUMENTS (which are turned or spun)

barrel organ

humming top

• basset horn blower

• bassoonist

• clarinetist

• fifer

• flutist

• oboist

• penny-whistler

• piccolo player

• reed instrumentalist

• saxophonist

• to  play the .........  (expertly / well / beautifully / badly / with feeling / like an amateur) 

3-WIND INSTRUMENTS (which are blown)

• basset horn

• bassoon

• clarinet

• fife

• flute

• oboe

• penny-whistle

• piccolo

• reed instrument

• saxophone

• bagpiper

• union piper

• ocarina player

• Pandean piper

• pitch piper

• to play the ...... (expertly / well / beautifully / badly / with feeling/ like an amateur)

• to blow into the ....pipes

4-WIND INSTRUMENTS (which are blown and use a bag)

bagpipes

union pipes

ocarina

Pandean pipes

pitch pipe

• bugler

• clarion player

• cornetist/cornettist

• horn blower

• saxaphonist

• trombonist

• trumpeter

• tuba player

• to play the .............

(expertly/well/beautifully/badly/

with feeling/ like an amateur)

5-WIND INSTRUMENTS (brass)

bugle

clarion

cornet

horn

post-horn

saxaphone

trombone

trumpet

tuba

• bell-ringer

• castanet player

• drummer

• harmonica player

• to ring the bell 

• to produce a peal of bells

• to play the (castanets / drums / harmonica / tom-tom)  (expertly / well / beautifully / badly / with feeling/ like an amateur)

• to tap the (cymbals  / triangle)

• to shake the (tambourine / rattle)

• to strike the gong

1-PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS (with a vibrating surface)

• bell  (a peal of bells)

• castanet

• cymbal

• drum

• gong

• harmonica

• kettle-drum

• rattle

• tambourine

• tom-tom

• triangle player

• xylophonist

• to tap the triangle

• to play the xylophone (expertly / well / beautifully / badly / with feeling/ like an amateur)

2-PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS (with vibrating bars)

• triangle

• xylophone

• harpist

• lyre player

• lute player

• archlute player

• mandolinist

• guitarist

• ukulele player

• zitherist

• cither player

• banjoist

• balalaika player

• violinist

• fiddler

• viola player

• celloist

• bass player

• double-bass player

• hurdy-gurdy player

•  to play the ...... (expertly / well / beautifully / badly / with feeling/ like an amateur)

• to use (a plectrum/a bow, etc.)

• to pluck the strings of the ........

• to tweak the strings of the ......

• to strum the guitar

• to thrum the guitar

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ACCESSORIES

• plectrum

• bow

• fiddlestick

• catgut

• strings

STRINGED INSTRUMENTS (1)

• harp

• lyre

• lute

• archlute

• mandola

• mandolin

• guitar

• ukulele

• zither

• cither,

• banjo

• balalaika

• violin (Cremona / Stradivarius)

• fiddle

• viola,

• cello

• bass

• double-bass

• hurdy-gurdy

• pianist

• pianola player

• harpsichordist

• clavier player

• spinet player

• to play  the ......... (expertly / well / beautifully / badly / quietly / loudly / forcefully / with feeling )

• to (lightly / deftly / skillfully ) run one’s fingers over the keys

• to touch the keys (gently / delicately / forcefully)

  IDIOM  

• to tickle the ivories (= to play the piano)

STRINGED INSTRUMENTS (2)

• piano (grand / upright / baby grand / electric)

• pianola

• harpsichord

• clavier

• spinet