| HURDYGURDY | Handle-operated stringed musical instrument such as a barrel organ (5-5) |
| AEOLIANHARP | Wind-operated stringed instrument (7,4) |
| STAVEIN | Smash, as a barrel |
| SOUNDBOARD | Resonant wooden surface in a musical instrument such as a piano or violin that amplifies the vibrations of its strings (10) |
| PERCUSSION | Type of musical instrument such as a bell, cymbal, drum or gong (10) |
| PLECTRUM | A device used to play the strings of a musical instrument such as a guitar (8) |
| FIPPLEFLUTE | A musical instrument such as a recorder or flageolet |
| SOPRANINO | Term for a musical instrument such as a recorder or saxophone with the highest pitch of all those in its family (9) |
| SQUEEZEBOX | Informal name for an instrument such as an accordion or concertina (7,3) |
| STRINGBAND | Musical group using instruments such as banjos, fiddles or guitars (6,4) |
| SERINETTES | From the French for "canaries", small barrel organs formerly used to teach tunes to said songbirds (10) |
| GONG | Instrument such as a tam-tam or one for calling people to dinner; informal word for a medal such as a knight bachelor award; or, a saucershaped bell of an alarm clock (4) |
| SCROLL | Volute or similar motif in the form of a curl of paper/parchment, as seen in art, on the capital of a column or at the end of a stringed instrument such as a violin (6) |
| REEDORGANS | Keyboard instruments such as harmoniums or melodeons (4,6) |
| CURIO | Whether an antique musical barrel organ with a peculiar mechanism, a bizarre geological specimen, a butterfly in a glass case or a taxidermised animal in an unusual pose, it is an objet or novelty, na |
| KNIFE | An instrument such as a Gurkha's kukri, a chipper's blade or one of the cutlery items stored in a canteen (5) |
| TOOL | Instrument such as a fillet used to impress a design on a leather book cover (4) |
| SERIN | A finch from whose name, the French for "canary", a term for a barrel organ used to train songbirds is derived (5) |
| MALLET | Implement for playing a percussion instrument such as a marimba, glockenspiel or xylophone; or, a longhandled stick for croquet or polo (6) |
| VALVE | Device for varying the pitch of a brass instrument such as a trumpet, French horn, trombone or tuba (5) |
