- Musical instrument - Small accordion - Squeeze-box - A small musical instrument on the principle of the
accordion. It is a small elastic box, or bellows, having free reeds on
the inside, and keys and handles on the outside of each of the two
hexagonal heads.
- 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.
- Keyboard instrument - A musical instrument, resembling a small organ and
especially designed for church music, in which the tones are produced
by forcing air by means of a bellows so as to cause the vibration of
free metallic reeds. It is now made with one or two keyboards, and has
pedals and stops.
- After card game, the French produce a shrill sound - It will shriek when subjected to a blow - Kettle sound - Referee’s item - Referee’s signal - To make a kind of musical sound, or series of sounds,
by forcing the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the
lips; also, to emit a similar sound, or series of notes, from the mouth
or beak, as birds. - To make a shrill sound with a wind or steam instrument,
somewhat like that made with the lips; to blow a sharp, shrill tone.