Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
Ethereal Timbres of Forgotten Instruments
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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- 1. Lithophone crafted from carefully tuned rocks, resonating pure tonal clarity
- 2. Rare bagpipe variant from the Czech lands with drone pipes of unique timbre
- 3. Percussive tuned metal tubes, evoking church chimes and orchestral drama
- 4. Eight-stringed Kenyan lyre plucked to summon visions and storytelling moods
- 8. Cranked string instrument whose wheel replaces a bow’s motion, droning medieval tunes
- 9. Renaissance wind instrument curved like a question mark with capped double reed
- 11. Balinese metallophone struck with padded mallets, integral to gamelan ensembles
- 13. Chinese free-reed mouth organ, ancestor to Western harmonicas and accordions
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- 5. Class of instruments producing sound via vibrating stretched membrane
- 6. Early electronic instrument producing wavering, thermal-like sounds (French origin)
- 7. Swedish keyed fiddle with sympathetic strings, echoing ancient Nordic lore
- 10. Ancient Australian wind instrument played with circular breathing and drone
- 12. Afghan spike fiddle with three gut strings and a mystic cultural legacy
- 14. Old Welsh bowed lyre with a name that omits several vowels
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