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Because its pitch rarely changes, what double-reed instrument is often used to keep the rest of the orchestra in tune?

Which of these unusual instruments appears in the Rolling Stones' "Honky Tonk Woman," Mountain's "Mississippi Queen," War's "Low Rider," Santana's "Evil Ways," Grand Funk Railroad's "We're an American Band" and Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper"?

Motown session man James Jamerson was one of the most influential people ever to play what instrument?

The Scruggs style uses only the thumb and first two fingers to play what instrument?

Despite missing or paralyzed fingers, Tony Iommi, Jerry Garcia and Django Reinhardt all were acclaimed performers with what instrument?

What musical instrument comes with a vibrato bar also known as a whammy bar?

Even expert players have difficulty with the smooth, unbroken multi-octave glissando that opens "Rhapsody in Blue," a glissando that George Gershwin wrote for Ross Gorman, who played what instrument in Paul Whiteman's orchestra?

Typically, a fanfare is played with what instrument, made of brass tubing bent into a rough spiral?

Who uses finger cymbals called zils?

On what instrument would you play a dirge called a pibroch?

What part of the body serves as a nickname for the lines of the staff in a treble clef?

As a gin drinking musician might know, what word describes the keynote of a major or minor scale?

The word "embouchure" refers to the way that musicians use what part of their body to play certain instruments?

Your local orchestra votes to decide what kind of pizza to order. If it's a typical orchestra, which section would have the most votes?

Which key signature, similar to A minor, has no flats or sharps?

Niccolo Paganini wrote the Napoleon Sonata to be played on just one string of what instrument?

The keys on a piano are white and what other color?

Which of these instruments is commonly played with a bow?

In 1990, what state adopted as its official musical instrument the diatonic accordion, specifically the melodeon, which Cajuns keyed like a harmonica?

Although he couldn't play it himself, Clarence Leo Fender introduced the Telecaster, the first mass-produced solid-body electric version of what instrument?