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Esoteric Timbres and Auditory Oddities
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Across
  • 1. Rare metal wind mimicking the sound of a bassoon’s depth
  • 2. Swedish keyed fiddle producing resonant drone harmonics
  • 3. Renaissance capped reed instrument with a buzzy nasal voice
  • 5. Metallic idiophone known for bell-like chiming in orchestras
  • 7. Sympathetic-stringed viola variant favored by Haydn’s chamber works
  • 9. Steel percussion with bright overtones tuned to Caribbean rhythms
  • 14. Low-pitched wooden bars yielding warm melodic resonance
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  • 4. Chinese free reed mouth organ producing layered polyphonic sounds
  • 6. Early electronic instrument known for haunting vibrato timbres
  • 8. Hungarian folk string instrument echoing gypsy tonalities
  • 10. Touchless electronic instrument shaped by proximity pitch control
  • 11. Kenyan lyre whose buzzing strings emit a distinctive twang
  • 12. Hammered string instrument creating ethereal pentatonic tones
  • 13. Steel handpan creating hypnotic resonances with percussive taps

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