| GAMBA | Old instrument a British journal's taken up |
| ABSOLUTEPITCH | Sailor's spiel about old instrument, a valuable musical gift |
| MAGGOT | Journal taken, one that may be in decay |
| TESTPAPER | International cricket journal taken by examinees (4,5) |
| FIDDLE | Colloquial word for a violin, especially in reference to its use as a folk instrument; a violinist; a petty swindle; or, a manually tricky task (6) |
| DAMPER | A shock absorber; a muffler, mute or sustain pedal for a musical instrument; a car silencer; dialect for bread eaten to quiet the appetite; or, a depressive or subduing influence (6) |
| FLUTE | Give a stringed instrument a new top and it becomes a woodwind (5) |
| PIPE | Simple wind instrument; a squeak; a hubble-bubble; cask for wine; or, a vertical bar symbol (4) |
| BALALAIKA | Instrument a laboratory set up with camera, we hear (9) |
| CONUNDRUM | Prisoner finds a French instrument a puzzle (9) |
| VIOLA | Unpopular instrument - a musical instrument? (5) |
| TAMBOURINE | Percussion instrument; a single drumhead of skin over a wooden frame hung with pairs of metal discs |
| OCTANS | Said to resemble a navigational instrument, a constellation named by Lacaille with 13 others including the "Air Pump", the "Chisel", the "Compasses" and the "Easel" (6) |
| TRIANGLE | Percussion instrument; a sonorous bent metal bar beaten with a metal stick (8) |
| DIDGERIDOO | Aboriginal musical instrument, a very long tube which produces a deep resonant sound (10) |
| KETTLEDRUM | Large percussion instrument, a hollow metal hemisphere with a plastic skin stretched over it (10) |
| DULCIMER | Musical instrument; a wooden box with wire strings played with a pair of light hammers (8) |
| AFFIDAVIT | Instrument - a very loud one - with apparatus on deck (9) |
| HARMONIUM | Keyboard instrument - a minor hum (anag) (9) |
| OBOEDA | Woodwind instrument, a predecessor of the cor anglais (4,2,6) |
