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Main Name	playing instruments (t6200)
Family Tree	abilitiesAbilities are skills or competences that have applicability in some sort of activity. · playing instrumentsLearning or playing an instrument. · · playing accordionThis person can play the accordion, a box-shaped, bellows-driven musical instrument. · · playing bagpipesA person who plays bagpipes, a class of musical instrument, aerophones, using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag. · · playing bandoneonThe bandoneón is a type of concertina particularly popular in Argentina and Uruguay which is an essential instrument in most tango ensembles from the traditional orquesta típicas of the 1930s and 1940s onwards. · · playing banjoThe banjo is a four-, five-, or six-stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity as a resonator, called the head, which is typically circular. The membrane is typically made of plastic, although animal skin is still occasionally used. Early forms of the instrument were fashioned by Africans in the United States, adapted from African instruments of similar design. The banjo is frequently associated with folk, Irish traditional, and country music. · · playing bass guitarThe bass guitar, or simply bass, is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and typically four to six strings or courses. · · playing bassoonThe bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor clefs, and occasionally the treble. The bassoon is a non-transposing instrument known for its distinctive tone colour, wide range, variety of character and agility. Listeners often compare its warm, dark, reedy timbre to that of a male baritone voice. Someone who plays the bassoon is called a bassoonist. · · playing biwaThe biwa (琵琶) is a Japanese short-necked fretted lute, and a close variant of the Chinese pipa. The biwa is the chosen instrument of Benten, goddess of music, eloquence, poetry, and education in Japanese Shinto. · · playing celloThe cello is a bowed string instrument. The word derives from the Italian violoncello. The cello is used as a solo instrument, in chamber music, and as a member of the string section of an orchestra. It is the second largest bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, the double bass being the largest. · · playing clarinetThe clarinet is a type of woodwind instrument that has a straight cylindrical tube with a flaring bell and a single-reed mouthpiece. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed. · · playing double bassThe double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, bass violin or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra. The double bass is a standard member of the string section of the symphony orchestra and smaller string ensembles in Western classical music; it is also used in other genres such as jazz, 1950s-style blues and rock and roll, country music, bluegrass, tango and many types of folk music. · · playing drumsno description set · · playing euphoniumThe euphonium is a conical-bore, valved, baritone-voiced, brass instrument. · · playing fluteno description set · · playing french hornno description set · · playing guitarThe guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. The sound is projected either acoustically, using a hollow wooden or plastic and wood box (for an acoustic guitar), or through electrical amplifier and a speaker (for an electric guitar). It is typically played by strumming or plucking the strings with the fingers, thumb or fingernails of the right hand or with a pick while fretting (or pressing against the frets) the strings with the fingers of the left hand. · · playing harmonicaThe harmonica, also known as a French harp, is an instrument, which is played by using the mouth (lips and tongue) to direct air into or out of one or more holes along a mouthpiece. · · playing harpA harp is a stringed instrument which has the plane of its strings positioned perpendicular to the soundboard. A person who plays the harp is called a harpist or harper. Folk musicians often use the term "harper", whereas classical musicians use "harpist". · · playing keyboardA keyboardist is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instruments with keyboards have come into common usage, requiring a more general term for a person who plays them. · · playing kotoThe koto (琴 or 箏) is a traditional Japanese stringed musical instrument which shares a common ancestor with the modern Chinese guzheng. The koto is the national instrument of Japan. They have 13 strings that are strung over 13 movable bridges along the width of the instrument. Players can adjust the string pitches by moving these bridges before playing, and use three finger picks (on thumb, index finger, and middle finger) to pluck the strings. · · playing luteAny plucked string instrument with a neck (either fretted or unfretted) and a deep round back can be considered a lute. The term more specifically applies to an instrument from the family of European lutes. · · playing lyreno description set · · playing marimbano description set · · playing melodicaThe melodica, also called pianica, is a free-reed instrument similar to the pump organ and harmonica. It has a musical keyboard on top, and is played by blowing air through a mouthpiece that fits into a hole in the side of the instrument. Pressing a key opens a hole, allowing air to flow through a reed. The keyboard covers usually two or three octaves. Melodicas are small, light, and portable. They are popular in music education, especially in Asia. · · playing oboeno description set · · playing ocarinaA ocarina is an ancient flute-like wind instrument. Variations do exist, but a typical ocarina is an enclosed space with four to twelve finger holes and a mouthpiece that projects from the body. It is often ceramic, but other materials may also be used, such as plastic, wood, glass, clay, and metal. · · playing organAn organ is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard, played either with the hands or with the feet. While the word is most often associated with extremely large pipe organs, which are the largest instruments in music, other types of organs exist, and not all pipe organs are large. A person who plays the organ is known as an organist. · · playing pianoA pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers. · · playing saxophoneno description set · · playing shamisenA shamisen is a three-stringed musical instrument played with a plectrum called a bachi. · · playing shengno description set · · playing sitarThe sitar is a plucked stringed instrument, originating from the Indian subcontinent, used in Hindustani classical music. · · playing tablano description set · · playing tromboneno description set · · playing trumpetThe trumpet is a musical instrument with the highest in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are constructed of brass tubing bent twice into an oblong shape, and are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air column inside the trumpet. · · playing tubano description set · · playing ukuleleThe ukulele is a chordophone classified as a plucked lute; it is a subset of the guitar family of instruments, generally with four nylon or gut strings or four courses of strings. It originated in the 19th century as a Hawaiian interpretation of guitar-like instruments taken to Hawaii by Portuguese immigrants. · · playing vibraphoneno description set · · playing violano description set
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