Perfect for beginners with simple, common vocabulary
Esoteric Echoes: Cryptic Instrument Epithets
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Japanese three-stringed soul talker, often nicknamed 'sammy'
- 2. Enigmatic cello cousin, Shakespeare’s favored bowed companion
- 4. Modern street violin, strings of synthetic whisper
- 5. Wheel-turned drone box, medieval mechanized music maker
- 10. Dutch bowed string, shadow sibling of the violin
- 12. Renaissance brass slide bearer, a trombone ancestor
Down
- 3. Swedish keyed fiddle often dubbed the 'keyed harp'
- 6. Rarevox’s predecessor: a mystical glass-tube sound summoner
- 7. Cap-covered double reed crowned with a curved J
- 8. Curved bass wind serpent of Renaissance church choirs
- 9. Obscure glass harmonica shimmerer from 18th century salons
- 11. Motorized resonance singer with metallic bars and fans
- 13. Ukrainian plucked harp, folklore’s lyrical nickname
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