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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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