| DRUMS | Instruments such as snares |
| SSRAEN | Pi: to read as 'snares' |
| ENTRAP | Broken net facing criticism as snare (6) |
| WOODWIND | Instruments such as clarinets and oboes (8) |
| CYMBALS | Percussion instruments such as majutaals |
| LATINPERCUSSION | Instruments such as maracas and congas |
| PERC | Instruments such as drums and cymbals: Abbr. |
| SKIFFLE | Musical style popularised in the 1950s often using improvised instruments such as washboards (7) |
| CONSORT | Spouse of a reigning monarch; an accompanying ship; or, a group of instruments, such as a chest of viols (7) |
| REEDORGANS | Keyboard instruments such as harmoniums or melodeons (4,6) |
| WOODS | Barrels or barriques for Bordeaux or other wine; biased bowling balls; blocks for printing; or, non-brass wind instruments such as bassoons (5) |
| PARTCH | Harry, American composer and inventor of instruments such as the chromelodeon (6) |
| PENS | From the Latin for "feathers", word for quills or writing instruments, such as the styli with which schoolmaster Cassian of Imola was stabbed to death by his own students (4) |
| STRINGBAND | Musical group using instruments such as banjos, fiddles or guitars (6,4) |
| 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) |
| BELL | Instrument such as Big Ben (4) |
| NECK | Brass part of instrument such as guitar |
| REEDORGAN | Instrument such as a harmonium (4,5) |
| OOMPAH | Sound made by instrument such as tuba (6) |
