| ZITHERS | Which musical folk instruments are played with a plectrum and the fingertips (7) |
| ZITHER | Which musical folk instrument is played with a plectrum and the fingertips (6) |
| MARIMBA | Percussion instrument made of wooden bars which are played with a mallet (7) |
| GLOCKENSPIEL | Musical instrument consisting of a set of tuned metal plates that are played with a pair of small hammers |
| WINDBLOWN | Dishevelled orchestra members, and how their instruments are played? |
| BYEAR | How some instruments are played |
| CASTS | Musical folks |
| CITHARA | Seven-stringed musical instrument of ancient Greece similar to the lyre, played with a plectrum (7) |
| GUITARS | Instruments played with a plectrum |
| ALPHORN | 12-foot-long folk instrument traditionally played by Swiss shepherds in the mountains (7) |
| SCALPEL | A small sharp knife or bistoury gripped in the fingertip, palmar or pencil manner and used for crafts, dissection, stencilling or surgery (7) |
| VIOLINS | In an orchestra, these instruments are sometime seen both left and right of the conductor |
| NEEDLES | Which small, slender, pointed instruments are used in sewing (7) |
| WEAPONS | Which instruments are used in combat, fighting, or war (7) |
| LANCETS | Which surgical instruments are used in operations (7) |
| MANDOLIN | The strings of which musical instrument are plucked with a plectrum (8) |
| MUSETTE | Folk instrument's fixed in damper (7) |
| SITAR | Indian musical instrument played with a plectrum called a mezrab; from Persian, 'three strings' (5) |
| CYMBALS | Percussion instruments are emblems, I say (7) |
| NAILBED | Covered area near the fingertip |
