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Esoteric Timbres and Auditory Oddities
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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- 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
Down
- 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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