trutruca
A wind instrument of the trumpet family, played mainly by the Mapuche of Chile and Argentina.

trutrucas
plural of trutruca

trutruka
Alternative form of trutruca.

trutrukas
plural of trutruka

tumbi
A traditional North Indian musical instrument from Punjab with a single string.

tumbis
plural of tumbi

tun
A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask. (See a diagram comparing cask sizes.)
A fermenting vat.
A traditional unit of liquid measure (from the volume of such a cask) equal to 252 wine gallons or 2 pipes.
Synonym of long ton: a unit of mass equal to 2240 pounds, 20 hundredweights of 112 pounds avoirdupois each.
Synonym of ton: any extremely or excessively large amount.
Synonym of drunkard: a person who drinks excessively.
Any shell belonging to Tonna and allied genera.
The cryptobiotic state of a tardigrade, when its metabolism is temporarily suspended.
A small silver cup holding half a pint, sometimes having a whistle in the handle that could not be blown until the cup was empty.
a chimney.

tunage
Alternative form of tuneage.

tundun
Alternative form of turndun.

tunduns
plural of tundun

tuneage
Music.

tunings
plural of tuning

tunob
plural of tun

tuns
plural of tun

turndun
A bullroarer.

turnduns
plural of turndun

turntableist
Alternative form of turntablist.

turntableists
plural of turntableist

turntablist
A DJ who uses a combination of turntables as a musical instrument.

turntablists
plural of turntablist

tutti
All together. Indicates that the remainder of a group should join in playing after a solo or other passage with a reduced number of voices.

tuttis
plural of tutti

twanger
One who twangs something.
Any of various species of cicada of the genus Diemeniana, of south-eastern Australia.
A stringed instrument, especially a guitar.

twangers
plural of twanger

txalaparta
A traditional Basque percussion instrument.

txalapartas
plural of txalaparta

tyanzi
Alternative form of chanzy.

tyanzis
plural of tyanzi

tympan
A piece of cloth padding placed under the platen of a letterpress to distribute the pressure on the sheet being printed.
The stretched membrane of a drum.
A percussion instrument consisting of a hollow cylinder with such a membrane at each end.
A tympanum.
The tympanum of the ear.

tympani
Alternative spelling of timpani.

tympano
A kettledrum.

tympans
plural of tympan

typophone
A musical keyboard instrument that produces sound by striking tuned brass rods that are coupled to a spruce soundboard. It was a precursor to the celesta.

typophones
plural of typophone

tzourades
plural of tzouras

tzouras
A Greek long-necked fretted lute.

tzourases
plural of tzouras

udu
A jug-shaped percussion instrument of Igbo origin.

ukelin
A musical instrument resembling a ukelele and violin.

ukelins
plural of ukelin

ultraharmonic
A harmonic whose frequency is many times that of the fundamental

ultraharmonics
plural of ultraharmonic

undermelodies
plural of undermelody

undermelody
An accompanying melody that is less prominent than the main melody.

undermusic
Background music.

undernote
A low or subdued note, such as a drone, that forms a background to the melody.
An undertone.

undernotes
plural of undernote

urform
The (real or idealised) version of a transmissible cultural element, such as a word, language, religion, ideology, folktale, melody, meme, etc., which is taken to be the original form from which all other versions have deviated.

urforms
plural of urform.

urheen
Alternative form of erhu (“Chinese musical instrument”).

utonalities
plural of utonality

utonality
A family of pitches that can all be expressed as ratios with a specified fixed tone, such that all ratios have the same numerator; a subharmonic series.

veena
A plucked stringed instrument with five or seven steel strings stretched on a long fretted finger-board over two gourds, used mostly in Carnatic Indian classical music.

veenas
plural of veena

ventage
A puff of air coming through a hole in a wind instrument.
Venting (the act by which something is vented)

ventages
plural of ventage

ventifact
A pebble or little stone shaped and polished by wind-blown sand.

ventifacts
plural of ventifact

verrophone
A musical instrument consisting of an arrangement of open-ended glass tubes of various sizes, which are rubbed or struck with a mallet to produce the sound.

verrophones
plural of verrophone

vibraharp
the vibraphone

vibraphone
A percussion instrument with a double row of tuned metal bars, each above a tubular resonator containing a motor-driven rotating vane, giving a vibrato effect.

vibraphones
plural of vibraphone

vibraslap
A percussion instrument, descendant of the jawbone, made of stiff wire connecting a wood ball to a block of wood with metal teeth inside, which when struck, creates a rattling sound.

vibraslaps
plural of vibraslap

vielle
A medieval stringed instrument similar to a violin.
The hurdy-gurdy.

vielles
plural of vielle

vina
Alternative form of veena.

viol
A stringed instrument related to the violin family, but held in the lap between the legs like a cello, usually with C-holes, a flat back, a fretted neck and six strings, played with an underhanded bow hold.
A large rope used to manipulate the anchor

violin
A small unfretted stringed instrument with four strings tuned (lowest to highest) G-D-A-E, usually held against the chin and played with a bow.
Any instrument of the violin family, always inclusive of violins, violas and cellos, and sometimes further including the double bass.
A violinist in an orchestra or group.

violincello
Misspelling of violoncello.

violincellos
plural of violincello

violins
plural of violin
the violin section of an orchestra

violoncelli
plural of violoncello

violoncello
Synonym of cello.

violoncelloes
plural of violoncello

violoncellos
plural of violoncello

violone
An early stringed instrument similar to a double bass.

violones
plural of violone

viols
plural of viol

virginal
Being or resembling a virgin.
Uncontaminated or pure.
Parthenogenic.

virginalls
Obsolete form of virginals.

virginals
Alternative form of virginal.

voicings
plural of voicing

waldzither
A type of stringed instrument, a cittern of German origin, with nine strings in five courses.

waldzithers
plural of waldzither

warhorn
Alternative form of war-horn.

warhorns
plural of warhorn

washint
An endblown flute of Ethiopian origin.

washints
plural of washint

waterphone
An acoustic percussion instrument consisting of a resonator bowl or pan with a cylindrical neck, surrounded by rods of different lengths and diameters. Water may be added to the bowl to modify the sound.
An instrument for detecting leaks in pipes by their sound, consisting of a rod attached to an earpiece.

waterphones
plural of waterphone

wavetable
A collection of many single-cycle waveforms with subtly changing harmonic contents, sometimes based on a sample of a real musical instrument, used in sound synthesis.

wavetables
plural of wavetable

whamola
A bass musical instrument played in the United States; a descendant of the washtub bass.

whamolas
plural of whamola

whippen
Alternative spelling of wippen.

whippens
plural of whippen

windboard
A snowboard or surfboard with an attached sail
The hard crust formed by high winds on exposed snow.
In a mechanical harvester, a board which shelters harvested grain and prevents it being blown away by the wind.

windboards
plural of windboard

windfall
Something that has been blown down by the wind.
The act of something being blown down by wind.
A fruit that has fallen from a tree naturally, as from wind.
A sudden large benefit; especially, a sudden or unexpected large amount of money, as from lottery or sweepstakes winnings or an unexpected inheritance or gift.

windfalls
plural of windfall

windings
plural of winding