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1. What is the name of a Russian stringed folk instrument with a triangular body that was featured in the film "Dr Zhivago"?
2. Which currently played reed instrument with an air reservoir, melody pipe(chanter) and drone has been depicted in prehistoric art as far back as 1000 B.C. in the Middle East and later in ancient Greece, Rome, Persia, and much later mentioned during the 14th century in the Canterbury Tales in the British Isles where the instrument gained much of its fame? It also has ceremonial & funeral uses and is a favorite for playing "Amazing Grace".
3. What is the name of the musical instrument played by Hindi snake charmers?
4. This musical instrument has a tongue or reed within a frame that is held in the mouth against the teeth and is plucked to make music. Which of these names is wrong?
5. This small pair of musical percussion instruments from Africa and the Caribbean were repopularized by beatniks in the 1950s. What are they called?
6. Which popular stringed instrument of the Hawaiian Islands created in the 1800s has a small figure eight like body shape and usually four strings that are strummed?
7. This long narrow tube, ending in a cone, was historically made of hollowed eucalyptus wood and is commonly played by Aborigines of Australia. What are these instruments usually called?
8. Also known as a squeezebox which instrument is played by compressing a rectangular box like bellows while pressing buttons on one end and keys on the other end.
9. This four to six-stringed circular bodied musical instrument with a resonator stretched over its rim is a twangy staple in country and bluegrass music. What is it called?
10. This musical instrument requires a comb of air chambers sandwiched between brass reed plates enabling the performer to play music by blowing air out over the instrument comb or by sucking air back in across the comb. Abraham Lincoln carried one in his pocket at the White House. What instrument is it?
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