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1. Which instrument made an appearance on both "It's A Long Way To The Top" by AC/DC and "Anthem" by Sensational Alex Harvey Band, showing the roots of band members?
2. "Spirit Of The Radio" by prog rockers Rush, "Little Wing" by Jimi Hendrix and U2's "I Will Follow" all make use of which xylophone like instrument?
3. Rod Stewart used one in a song about a wind, and Al Kooper helped Lynyrd Skynyrd by playing it on "Mississippi Kid". What was the instrument?
4. The flute is well known in rock music thanks to Jethro Tull, but which hard rock band used one on their 1970 album track "Planet Caravan"?
5. Which instrument, traditionally associated with bluegrass music, was played by Slash on the Guns n Roses track "Breakdown"?
6. David Miles played hurdy-gurdy for Metallica on their "Low Man's Lyric" track and Nigel Eaton played it on "Gallows Pole" for Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, but which former Deep Purple member is also an accomplished hurdy-gurdy player?
7. Loved by music teachers in schools throughout the world, and often a child's first instrument, on which Rolling Stones song did Brian Jones play the recorder?
8. When you are a band riding the crest of the punk/new wave wave, what you really want to do is release a song featuring an angry instrument like a harpsichord. Say what? Which English punk pioneers did just that?
9. "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" was a 1994 video game for the Nintendo 64 console which saw a huge rise in ocarina sales and interest in the instrument. However, The Troggs had famously used an ocarina many years before, on which track?
10. Originating in west and central Africa, and hugely popular in Guatemala, which percussion instrument was played by Jack White on White Stripes' track "The Nurse" as well as by Ray Cooper on Elton John's "Island Girl" and by Todd Rundgren on the Psychedelic Furs hit "Love My Way"?
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