drumsets
plural of drumset

duduk
An Armenian woodwind instrument.

duduks
plural of duduk

dugnad
Unpaid voluntary, orchestrated community work.

dugnads
plural of dugnad

dulcian
A Renaissance bass woodwind instrument, with a double reed and a folded conical bore

dulcians
plural of dulcian

dulcimer
A stringed instrument, with strings stretched across a sounding board, usually trapezoidal, played by plucking on the strings (traditionally with a quill) or by tapping on them (in the case of the hammer dulcimers).

dulcimers
plural of dulcimer

dulcitone
A keyboard instrument in which sound is produced by a range of tuning forks, which vibrate when struck by felt-covered hammers activated by the keyboard.

dulcitones
plural of dulcitone

dulzaina
A Spanish double reed musical instrument in the oboe family.

dulzainas
plural of dulzaina

dulzian
Alternative form of dulcian.

dulzians
plural of dulzian

dumbek
A Middle Eastern goblet drum.

dumbeks
plural of dumbek

dutar
A two-stringed lute with a long neck, found in Central Asia.

dutars
plural of dutar

dveykus
Alternative form of dveykut.

dveykut
Intense devotion or piety.
A slow rapturous Jewish melody

dvojnice
Alternative form of diple.

dvojnices
plural of dvojnice

echelle
An echelle grating.

ecocentre
An institution set up to promote environmental awareness.

ectara
A one-stringed musical instrument from India.

ectaras
plural of ectara

egoitis
A notional disease characterised by an overblown ego.

einkanter
A type of pebble that has a single curved face formed by wind-blown sand.

einkanters
plural of einkanter

ekonting
Synonym of akonting.

ekontings
plural of ekonting

electroencephalophone
An experimental musical instrument or diagnostic tool which uses brainwaves (measured in the same way as an EEG) to generate or modulate sounds.

electroencephalophones
plural of electroencephalophone

encephalophone
Synonym of electroencephalophone.

encephalophones
plural of encephalophone

enneachord
An ancient Greek nine-stringed musical instrument.
A musical interval of nine notes.
A chord played with nine notes.
A mystical chord or combination of nine entities that characterizes the music of the spheres.

enneachords
plural of enneachord

ensembles
plural of ensemble

ensembling
Playing harmoniously together in an ensemble

ensemblist
Someone who performs in an ensemble.
A musician specializing in ensemble performances.

ensemblists
plural of ensemblist

eo
A Korean wooden percussion instrument in the shape of a tiger with a serrated back, played by running a bamboo whisk across the serrations.

epigonion
An ancient stringed instrument, apparently a harp or psaltery.

equianharmonic
equally anharmonic; specifically, whose anharmonic ratio is a cube root of unity

equianharmonics
plural of equianharmonic

erhu
A type of bowed spike fiddle having two strings, originating in China as part of the huqin family of string instruments.

erhus
plural of erhu

erxian
One of several bowed string instruments in the huqin family, used in traditional Chinese music.
A long-necked plucked lute with two strings, used in traditional Chinese music.

escrol
Alternative form of escroll.

escroll
A scroll.
A long strip or scroll (resembling a ribbon or a band of parchment), sometimes bearing a motto or other text, either (rarely) used as a charge upon the shield, or placed above the shield and supporting the crest, or below the shield.

escrols
plural of escrol

esraj
A bowed string instrument of Indian origin, with a goatskin soundboard, sympathetic strings attached to a sitar-like neck, and twenty frets.

esrajes
plural of esraj

etherophone
Synonym of theremin.

etherophones
plural of etherophone

etherphone
Synonym of theremin.

etherphones
plural of etherphone

ethnoorganology
Alternative form of ethno-organology.

euph
Euphonium.

euphon
A musical instrument having a series of glass rods producing different pitches.

euphonium
A valved brass instrument with conical tubing similar in appearance to a tuba but of higher pitch.

euphoniums
plural of euphonium

euphonon
A musical instrument resembling the organ in tone and the upright piano in form.

euphonons
plural of euphonon

evestra
plural of evestrum

evestrum
According to Paracelsus, an astral body that originates at birth and is responsible for visions of the future.

exciter
One who or that which excites.
The electronic oscillator that generates the carrier signal for a transmitter.
An audio signal processing technique used to enhance a signal by dynamic equalization, phase manipulation, harmonic synthesis of (usually) high frequency signals, and through the addition of subtle harmonic distortion.

exciters
plural of exciter

excitor
Alternative form of exciter.

excitors
plural of excitor

exulceration
ulceration
fretting; festering; soreness

exulcerations
plural of exulceration

fackings
Alternative form of fackins.

feddle
Fiddle (musical instrument).
Misspelling of fettle.

feddles
plural of feddle

feeses
plural of feese

ferrinho
A type of percussion instrument originating Cape Verde.

fiddlemaker
Synonym of violin maker.

fiddlestick
One of a pair of sticks, similar to drumsticks, used by a second player to percuss the strings of a fiddle while the main player plays via bow.
A bow used to play the fiddle.
A whit; a jot.

fiddlesticks
Nonsense! Expresses dismissal or disdain.
Darn! Expresses mild dismay or annoyance.

fiddlestring
One of the strings of a fiddle.
The frenulum of the penis; penile frenulum.

fiddlestrings
plural of fiddlestring

final
A final examination; a test or examination given at the end of a term or class; the test that concludes a class.
A final examination taken at the end of the final year of an undergraduate course, which contributes towards a student's degree classification.
The last round, game or match in a contest, after which the winner is determined.
The final part of a syllable, the combination of medial and rime in phonetics and phonology.
The tonic or keynote of a Gregorian mode, and hence the final note of any conventional melody played in that mode.

finals
plural of final
A contest that narrows a field of contestants (finalists) to ranked positions, usually in numbered places (1st place or prize, 2nd place or prize, etc.) or a winner and numbered runners-up (1st runner-up, etc.).

fingerboard
A flat or roughly flat strip on the neck of a stringed instrument, against which the strings are pressed to shorten the vibrating length and produce notes of higher pitches.
A miniature skateboard or snowboard that is propelled by the fingers.
Synonym of hangboard (“device for building finger strength”).

fingerboards
plural of fingerboard

fingerhole
A hole in a musical instrument to be covered with a finger to modify the pitch.

fingerholes
plural of fingerhole

fingerings
plural of fingering

fingerpickings
plural of fingerpicking

fingerstyle
A style of playing a stringed instrument, such as a guitar, which includes the use of the fingers to pluck the strings instead of a pick, or plectrum.

fingerstyles
plural of fingerstyle

fioriture
flourishes in a melody by a singer or musician.

fiscorn
A deep-sounding brass instrument from Catalonia in the cobla.

flageolet
A type of small flute of the fipple family.
A technique for playing stringed instrument that produces high-pitched overtones.
A type of small light green kidney-shaped bean, common in France.

flageolets
plural of flageolet

flattop
A short haircut in which the hair is brushed straight up then cut flat across the top.
An aircraft carrier.
A type of stringed instrument, most often an acoustic guitar, with a flat top (as opposed to an archtop), with strings held in place with pins, and with a complex system of bracing struts on the top.
A grill with a flat cooking surface rather than metal bars.

flattops
plural of flattop

flautini
plural of flautino