HARPSICHORDS Antonyms

• a high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown

• a tall narrow wineglass

• a groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column)

• form flutes in

• a stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking

• device consisting of a set of keys on a piano or organ or typewriter or typesetting machine or computer or the like

• holder consisting of an arrangement of hooks on which keys or locks can be hung

• a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function

• a government agency or instrument devoted to the performance of some specific function

• (music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ

• a periodical that is published by a special interest group

• wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard

• a free-reeded instrument with a piano keyboard in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows

• (used chiefly as a direction or description in music) soft; in a quiet, subdued tone

• a keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds

• (music) low loudness

• used as a direction in music; to be played relatively softly

• an intellectual who synthesizes or uses synthetic methods

• (music) an electronic instrument (usually played with a keyboard) that generates and modifies sounds electronically and can imitate a variety of other musical instruments

• a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves

• proclaim on, or as if on, a trumpet

• play or blow on the trumpet

• utter in trumpet-like sounds

• bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow

• a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end

• the sound of a drum

• a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends

• a cylindrical metal container, commonly used for shipping or storage of liquids

• a hollow cast iron cylinder attached to the wheel that forms part of the brakes

• small to medium-sized bottom-dwelling food and game fishes of shallow coastal and fresh waters that make a drumming noise

• make a rhythmic sound

• play a percussion instrument

• study intensively, as before an exam