accordion
/əˈkɔɹdiən/
nouna box-like musical instrument that is held in both hands and is played by squeezing and stretching it while pressing its keys
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1. His daughter's taking accordion lessons.
2. Well, explain accordion repo.
3. She plays the accordion.
4. And my own daughter is taking accordion lessons.
5. Many accordions have different reed options.
drum
/ˈdɹəm/
nouna musical instrument consisting of a hollow, round frame with plastic or skin stretched tightly across one or both ends, played by hitting it with sticks or hands
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1. [laughter] Drumming a familiar beat.
2. A team drum off?
3. I play drums.
4. He plays drums.
5. Playing drums?
keyboard
/ˈkiˌbɔɹd/
nouna type of electronic musical instrument with keys like those of a piano, which is able to make many different sounds
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1. So keyboard, got my fancy mouse.
2. I use keyboards
3. Keyboard shortcuts for effects and presets.
4. We have keyboards.
5. Keyboards are a great help to students with some learning disabilities, as well as students with poor handwriting.
piano
/piˈænə/, /piˈænoʊ/
nouna musical instrument played by pressing the black and white keys on the keyboard
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1. They both play piano.
2. the girls will play piano.
3. Who plays piano?
4. My mom teaches piano.
5. Middle-class people have pianos.
saxophone
/ˈsæksəˌfoʊn/
nouna curved metal wind instrument that is played by blowing into it while pressing its buttons
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1. The saxophone pretty much has become kinda like the face of jazz.
2. I took saxophone lessons.
3. - I like this sad saxophone.
4. Ah this saxophone definitely plays the loops.
5. He played the saxophone.
trumpet
/ˈtɹəmpət/
nouna musical instrument with a curved metal tube and one wide end, which is played by blowing into it while pressing and releasing its three buttons
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1. A trumpet, like many wind instruments, has very little flux.
2. Suddenly, trumpets sounded from their left.
3. the trumpet may have the second partial and the fourth partial and the sixth partial.
4. Trumpets all over the place.
5. They trumpet the authority of the Parisian Sans-Culottes.
violin
/vaɪəˈɫɪn/
nouna musical instrument with strings, held under the chin and played with a bow
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1. I played the violin.
2. You guys have a violin?
3. We have violin.
4. So my sister played the violin.
5. Violins were his life and his bread.
musician
/mjuˈzɪʃən/
nounsomeone who plays a musical instrument or writes music, especially as a profession
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1. So musicians talk about deliberate practice.
2. With the first black president in the White House, musicians took up the empowerment song.
3. Musicians are at least as neurotic as everybody else, easily.
4. Indeed, ten generations of Bachs were musicians.
5. Soon, other musicians joined their group.
instrument
/ˈɪnstɹəmənt/
nounan object or device used for producing music, such as a violin or a piano
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1. Each song and location changes instruments entirely in order to give you a sense of that location.
2. Instruments are common.
3. Maybe switch the instrument.
4. Musical instrument repairers and tuners keep instruments in tune and in good repair.
5. And instruments can convey feelings.
bass guitar
/bˈeɪs ɡɪtˈɑːɹ/
nouna type of electric guitar that produces the lowest pitch in the family of guitars
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1. I got drums, bass guitar, lead guitar, rhythm guitar.
2. But he ended up playing bass guitar.
3. It's not like a bass guitar.
4. And would we have had electric guitars and bass guitars and stuff
5. The center information is like kick drum, snare drum, bass guitar right.
