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Enigmatic Sounds of Rare Instruments
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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  • 1. Mallet percussion with motor-driven resonators creating vibrato effect.
  • 2. Early electronic keyboard producing eerie glissandi, used notably in 20th-century classical music.
  • 5. Argentine tango’s emotive button accordion, of German origin.
  • 6. Chinese free-reed mouth organ with vertical pipes, ancestor of harmonica.
  • 9. Renaissance capped double reed wind instrument with curved top.
  • 12. Modern steel instrument shaped like UFO, hand-played melodic percussion.
  • 14. Inscrutable wind instrument hidden among rare ethnomusicological artifacts.
  • 16. African bell instrument of dual or multiple metal bells, used in samba rhythms.
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  • 3. Crank-stringed drone instrument with a keyboard, medieval Europe’s mechanical marvel.
  • 4. Benjamin Franklin’s swirling glass bowl keyboard creating ethereal tones.
  • 7. Indian plucked lute with resonant sympathetic strings, popularized by Ravi Shankar.
  • 8. Swedish keyed fiddle with sympathetic strings, medieval origins.
  • 10. Ancient Australian Aboriginal long wooden trumpet producing drone.
  • 11. Electronic instrument played without touch, named after its inventor Lev.
  • 13. Household item innovatively repurposed as a percussive jug band staple.
  • 15. Eight-stringed lyre from Kenya, integral to Luo musical tradition.
  • 17. East African thumb piano with metal lamellae, also known as mbira’s cousin.

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