Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Esoteric Timbres and Sonic Oddities
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Deep-sea inspired free reed instrument with curved reeds
- 2. Steel handpan producing ethereal, melodic percussive tones
- 3. Renaissance capped double reed with a distinctive buzz
- 4. Swedish keyed fiddle with sympathetic strings
- 8. Japanese bamboo flute used in Zen meditation
- 10. Obscure wooden wind instrument named after its vibrational pitch class
- 13. A narrow tube producing pitch by varying breath pressure
- 16. Modern thumb piano designed for laid-back, resonant tones
Down
- 5. Chinese mouth organ with multiple bamboo pipes
- 6. Early 20th-century electronic keyboard with ethereal sound
- 7. Long natural horn from the Alps used for signaling
- 9. Experimental instrument producing eerie sounds by bowing metal rods
- 11. Fretless string instrument known for sliding pitch effects
- 12. Experimental string instrument using vegetable matter for resonance
- 14. Pioneer electronic instrument controlled without touch
- 15. Hybrid bass instrument combining bassoon and bagpipe timbres
- 17. African lamellophone with metal tines plucked by thumbs
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