| APPLAUSE | Assess the worth of a piano with vocal admiration (8) |
| APPRAISE | Assess the worth of a 2p increase (8) |
| EVALUATE | Judge or assess the worth of (8) |
| VALUABLE | Asked to assess worth of a bull that's highly prized (8) |
| PARVALUE | Worth of a security at its face |
| ASKFORIT | Provoke trouble with vocal quartet in a comedy item (3,3,2) |
| AVEMARIA | A very English mass, with vocal music and prayer |
| UPRIGHT | A perpendicular goalpost, stake, stone, stroke etc; a tool for basketry; a type of chair with a straight back; or, a piano with vertical strings (7) |
| KEYBOARD | Part of a piano or a computer (8) |
| WRAPPING | Cover with vocals over a backing beat |
| UNACORDA | Of a piano piece, to be played with the soft pedal depressed; Italian, 'one string' (3,5) |
| PARTICLE | Bit of a piano recital, maybe (8) |
| BASSCLEF | Character introducing e.g. the left-hand part of a piano score (4,4) |
| DAFTPUNK | French electronic music duo who released the song Get Lucky with vocals by Pharrell Williams in 2013 (4,4) |
| WREN | Name of a "cave-dwelling" passerine songster of the genus Troglodytes, which is a diminutive farthing-worth of a bird, yet the proverbial monarch of its perch (4) |
| PRESERVE | Jam involving piano with cool quality (8) |
| PREMIERE | Piano with two notes before first performance (8) |
| PLAYBILL | Theatre poster advertises piano with song, on account (8) |
| URGENTLY | You are heard on piano with great persistence (8) |
| CALVADOS | Brandy ad enlivened with vocals |