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The instrument name comes from the category plasmaphones, in which the sound comes from plasma. unpitched percussion: Pyrophone: plasmaphone: Uses explosions to produce sound in pipes. Weak similarity to pipe organ or calliope (which run air/steam through pipes, but producing sound through the friction of air on ducts). pitched percussion ...
Cromorne is a French woodwind reed instrument of uncertain identity [clarification needed], used in the early Baroque period in French court music. The name is sometimes confused with the similar-sounding name crumhorn , a musical woodwind instrument probably of different design, called "tournebout" by French theorists in the 17th century.
Alboka (Basque Country, Spain); Arghul (Egypt and other Arabic nations); Aulochrome; Chalumeau; Clarinet. Piccolo (or sopranino, or octave) clarinet; Sopranino clarinet (including E-flat clarinet)
Roman numerals: for example the word "six" in the clue might be used to indicate the letters VI; The name of a chemical element may be used to signify its symbol; e.g., W for tungsten; The days of the week; e.g., TH for Thursday; Country codes; e.g., "Switzerland" can indicate the letters CH; ICAO spelling alphabet: where Mike signifies M and ...
An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues.
Only the main article names are listed in these cases. For example, apito is listed but samba whistle is merely noted as an alternate name. A distinct instrument or type represented only by a redirect to an article section should however be shown. Instruments represented only by redlinks have no Wikipedia articles as yet but are shown.
Many crossword anthologies, including The Times, Guardian, Telegraph, Financial Times, and the Herald include cryptic puzzles by Squires, including one book devoted solely to 100 of his Guardian cryptics. In collaboration with Ken Guy he produced three general knowledge books on "The 1950s", "The 1960s" and "The 1970s".
The instrument name recorder derives from the Latin recordārī (to call to mind, remember, recollect), by way of Middle-French verb recorder (before 1349; to remember, to learn by heart, repeat, relate, recite, play music) [9] [10] and its derivative recordeur (c. 1395; one who retells, a minstrel).