flautino
Any of several high-pitched woodwind instruments, including the zufolo, sopranino recorder, and piccolo.

flautinos
plural of flautino

flexatone
A modern percussion instrument consisting of a small flexible metal sheet suspended in a wire frame ending in a handle.

flexatones
plural of flexatone

floghera
A Greek folk instrument of the end-blown flute family; a simple form of recorder.

flogheras
plural of floghera

floytes
plural of floyte

fluegelhorn
Alternative spelling of flugelhorn.

fluegelhorns
plural of fluegelhorn

flugel
Alternative form of flugelhorn.
A harpsichord.
A grand piano.

flugelhorn
A brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider, conical bore, and usually with three valves, in the same B-flat pitch as many trumpets and cornets but with a more deeply conical mouthpiece than those. A bugle with valves.

flugelhorns
plural of flugelhorn

flugels
plural of flugel

flumpet
A musical instrument that blends qualities of the trumpet and flugelhorn.

flumpets
plural of flumpet

flutophone
A small wind instrument, resembling the recorder or clarinet, used in elementary music education.

flutophones
plural of flutophone

fondamento
A quay along an Italian waterway.
An instrumental bass part that forms the basis of the melody, and against which other instruments provide harmony.

fondamentos
plural of fondamento

fontanel
Alternative spelling of fontanelle.

fontanelle
A soft membraneous spot on the head of a baby due to incomplete fusion of the cranial bones.
A structural component of some woodwind instruments, such as recorders and shawms, resembling a barrel with holes bored into it, designed to protect the keywork and to allow the sound to project.

fontanelles
plural of fontanelle

fontanels
plural of fontanel

fonticuli
plural of fonticulus

fonticulus
Synonym of fontanelle (“membranous spot on the head of a baby”).
A small artificial ulcer produced by caustics or a lancet.
The depression just over the top of the breastbone.

fontomfrom
An Ashanti talking drum

fontomfroms
plural of fontomfrom

fortepiano
A keyboard instrument; the smaller, quieter precursor to the pianoforte.

fortepianoes
plural of fortepiano

fortepianos
plural of fortepiano

fortunings
Fortunes; things happening by chance.

frailers
plural of frailer

fretboard
A fret or plate put over the neck of musical instruments or its fingerboard, to create a different sound of notes.

fretboards
plural of fretboard

fretfulnesses
plural of fretfulness

fretless
Of a stringed instrument, not having frets on the fingerboard.
Without worries.

fretlesses
plural of fretless

fretmen
plural of fretman

fretsaws
plural of fretsaw

fretter
One who or that which frets.

fretters
plural of fretter

frettings
plural of fretting

fretworks
plural of fretwork

frottoir
Synonym of rubboard.

frottoirs
plural of frottoir

fujara
a flute-like woodwind musical instrument from Slovakia.

fumishness
fretfulness; rage

gadulka
A traditional Bulgarian stringed instrument, played with a bow, and most commonly featuring three main strings and up to sixteen sympathetic strings.

gadulkas
plural of gadulka

gamelan
A genre of music of Indonesian origin typically featuring metallophones, xylophones, drums, gongs and a bamboo flute (called a suling).
An ensemble performing this style of music.

gamelang
Abbreviation of game or language (“Language learning through video games”)
Archaic form of gamelan (“Indonesian music ensemble”).

gamelangs
plural of gamelang

gamelans
plural of gamelan

gandingan
A musical instrument, consisting of an array of four hanging gongs, of Filipino origin.

gandingans
plural of gandingan

gangan
A talking drum of West Africa.

ganoun
Alternative spelling of qanun.

ganouns
plural of ganoun

gaohu
A two-stringed vertical fiddle-like chordophone (stringed instrument) used as a leading instrument in Cantonese music.

gaohus
plural of gaohu

gauderies
plural of gaudery

gaudery
finery; ornaments
ostentatious display; gaudiness

gaufrettes
plural of gaufrette

gayageum
A zither-like chordophone, most often with twelve strings, originating in the traditional music of Korea.

gazoo
Synonym of kazoo (“musical instrument”).
Synonym of wazoo (“anus”)

gazooka
Synonym of kazoo (“musical instrument”).

gazookas
plural of gazooka

gazoos
plural of gazoo

genechip
A microarray used in analysing genomes.

geomungo
A zither of ancient Korean origin, with frets and movable bridges, played by plucking with a stick.

geomungos
plural of geomungo

geophone
A form of microphone that detects and records seismic vibrations.
A percussion instrument consisting of a drum filled with pellets, played by swirling it around to produce a sound like shifting earth.

geophones
plural of geophone

ghaita
Alternative form of rhaita.

ghaitas
plural of ghaita

ghatam
An earthenware pot used as a percussion instrument in the Carnatic music of South India.

ghatams
plural of ghatam

ghaychak
Any of several lute-like stringed instruments of Asian origin.
Any of several lute-like stringed instruments of Asian origin.

ghaychaks
plural of ghaychak

ghichak
Alternative spelling of ghaychak.

ghichaks
plural of ghichak

ghijak
Alternative spelling of ghaychak.

ghijaks
plural of ghijak

ghittern
Alternative spelling of gittern.

ghitterns
plural of ghittern

gigbag
Alternative form of gig bag.

gigbags
plural of gigbag

gigelira
A xylophone.

gigeliras
plural of gigelira

gittar
Eye dialect spelling of guitar.

gittars
plural of gittar

gittern
A small, quill-plucked, gut-strung musical instrument, most commonly with three to four strings in doubles courses; it is a flat-backed predecessor of the guitar, and it originated around the 13th century, coming to Europe via Moorish Spain.

gitterns
plural of gittern

glassichord
A 19th-century musical instrument made of glass plates that are struck by hammers or sticks.
Synonym of glass harmonica.
Anything that produces a similarly pure continuous sound.

glassichords
plural of glassichord

glassychord
glass harmonica

glockenspiel
A musical instrument of the percussion idiophone family of instruments. Like the xylophone, it has tuned bars arranged like the keys on a piano. It is smaller in size and higher in pitch than the xylophone, and the bars are made of metal instead of wood.

glockenspiels
plural of glockenspiel

gloomleader
A vocal pessimist or naysayer.

gloomleaders
plural of gloomleader

goge
Alternative spelling of goje.

goges
plural of goge

goje
A fiddle-like stringed instrument with one or two strings, and a resonator made from a gourd or calabash, originating among the Hausa of West Africa.

gojes
plural of goje

gopuz
A komuz (a stringed instrument).
A temir komuz (a Jew's harp)

gopuzes
plural of gopuz

gottan
traditional Kagoshima plucked instrument resembling a sanshin

gragger
A type of ratchet (an idiophone musical instrument) used mainly in Purim celebrations in Jewish tradition; it consists of a board and a gearwheel attached to a handle, and is played by swinging the mechanism to make the gearwheel scrape against the board, producing a percussive sound.

graggers
plural of gragger

grecque
An ornament supposed to be of Greek origin, especially a fret or meander.
A vessel with a perforated bottom for making coffee without grounds.

grecques
plural of grecque

grenadillo
The wood of a tropical American tree. It is used in the making of clarinets, flutes and other wind instruments.

grogger
Alternative form of gragger.

groggers
plural of grogger

groupetti
plural of groupetto

groupetto
Alternative form of gruppetto.

groupettos
plural of groupetto

growlings
plural of growling