Musical Instruments: List of 30 Popular Types of Instruments in English

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Musical Instruments in English! Learn a list of 30 basic types of musical instruments with useful examples and ESL printable infographic.

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Musical Instruments

List of musical instruments

Here is the list of names of musical instruments

• Accordion
• Banjo
• Bass guitar
• Bongo
• Cello
• Clarinet
• Cymbal
• Drum kit
• Euphonium
• Flute
• Harmonica
• Gong
• Guitar
• Harmonica
• Harp
• Hammered dulcimer
• Lute
• Lyre
• Mandolin
• Marimba
• Piano
• Piccolo
• Saxophone
• Tambourine
• Trumpet
• Tuba
• Ukulele
• Viola
• Violin
• Xylophone

Musical Instruments with Example Sentences

Accordion

• He plays blues on the accordion.

Banjo

• He could hear the thrum of a banjo.

Bass guitar

• He plays bass guitar.

Bongo

• Try penny whistles, maracas, guitars, recorders, bongo drums and the piano for melodious fun.

Cello

• The slow movement opens with a cello solo.

Clarinet

• She plays the clarinet in a swing band.

Cymbal

•  I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

Drum kit

• Don’t lay into your drum kit at midnight in a residential area.

Euphonium

• He’d played the euphonium during our last summer tour.

Flute

• She plays the flute in an orchestra.

Harmonica

• He played a tune on his harmonica.

Gong

• The gong for lunch sounded two floors down.

Guitar

• He strummed his guitar when he talked to me.

Harmonica

• He played a tune on his harmonica.

Harp

• She’s a wizard at playing harp.

Hammered dulcimer

• One of the KLEZmer special instruments was the hammered dulcimer, known as a TSIMbal.

Lute

• He idly plucked the strings of the lute.

Lyre

• The minstrel drew sweet sounds from his lyre and waked in all the longing for the dance.

Mandolin

• She plays the mandolin superlatively well.

Marimba

• That’s a proton collision played on marimba.

Piano

• He keyed the piano up to a concert pitch.

Piccolo

• I can sense a piccolo fauxpas when I make one.

Saxophone

• He was jamming with his saxophone.

Tambourine

• I enjoy the beat from the tambourine.

Trumpet

• He played trumpet professionally in a jazz combo.

Tuba

• He taught himself to play the tuba.

Ukulele

• A man playing ukulele and riding a bicycle across the sky.

Viola

• She plays viola in a string orchestra.

Violin

• She plays the violin remarkably well.

Xylophone

• They will never recede like a xylophone.

Types of Instruments | Infographic

Learn types of musical instruments with ESL pictures.