- Common musical instrument - Instrument preferred by plucky types - Musical instrument - A stringed instrument of music resembling the lute or the
violin, but larger, and having six strings, three of silk covered with
silver wire, and three of catgut, -- played upon with the fingers.
- Instrument struck with mallets - Percussion Instrument - Percussion instrument played with hammers - Wooden-bar instrument - An instrument common among the Russians, Poles, and
Tartars, consisting of a series of strips of wood or glass graduated in
length to the musical scale, resting on belts of straw, and struck with
two small hammers. Called in Germany strohfiedel, or straw fiddle. - An instrument to determine the vibrative properties of
different kinds of wood.
- Beat on boiler like timpani - Musical instrument - Percussion instrument - A drum made of thin copper in the form of a
hemispherical kettle, with parchment stretched over the mouth of it. - An informal social party at which a light collation is
offered, held in the afternoon or early evening. Cf. Drum, n., 4 and 5.