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Echoes of Rare Musical Curiosities
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  • 1. Brass instrument similar to trumpet but with a more mellow tone
  • 2. Household item adapted as a percussive rhythm instrument in jug bands
  • 3. Term referring to striking a hammered dulcimer’s strings (general action)
  • 5. Woodwind instrument from Mexico, constructed with a gourd resonator
  • 9. Instrument with wooden bars struck by mallets to produce pitched tones
  • 11. A stringed instrument turned by a crank that creates continuous sound via a wheel
  • 12. Unusual wind instrument made by buzzing lips into an empty ceramic container
  • 16. Persian hammered dulcimer played with lightweight mallets
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  • 4. African thumb piano with metal tines plucked to produce melodic tones
  • 6. Swedish keyed fiddle with strings pressed by keys instead of fingers
  • 7. Single-stringed folk instrument from India used in devotional music
  • 8. Historic curved woodwind instrument with a capped double reed
  • 10. Instrument played without physical contact, controlled by hand movements near antennas
  • 13. An uncommon name sometimes mistakenly attributed; cross-check with actual inventions
  • 14. Aboriginal Australian wind instrument traditionally made of hollowed wood
  • 15. Describing bowls that emit musical tones when rubbed with a mallet (as in Tibetan bowls)
  • 17. Ukrainian string instrument blending lute and harp characteristics

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