🎵 Music

Instruments hidden behind an emoji cipher. The emoji are letters, so a piano is spelled rather than pictured.

Hint: Keyboard instrument with black and white keys

🦎🏏🦓💶🎱
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PIANO
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Hint: Stringed device played with a pick

🎒🏀🚃🛳🚖🎻
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GUITAR
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Hint: Percussion kit used for beats

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DRUMS
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Hint: Played with a bow under the chin

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VIOLIN
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Hint: Woodwind pipe blown from the side

🚜🦂🌂🎹🍉
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FLUTE
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Hint: Brass horn with three valves

🥪🌯🚨🤿🛳🚔🥪
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TRUMPET
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Hint: Tall frame of plucked strings

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HARP
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Hint: Curved reed horn of jazz

🏐🚊🎭🦊🛬🎨🦊🍐🚆
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SAXOPHONE
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Hint: Large string played sitting down

📑🐗🧀🧀🏮
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CELLO
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Hint: Squeezed to make a sound

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ACCORDION
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Hint: Round body and bright twang

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BANJO
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Hint: Shaken ring of small jingles

🐙🤿🎰🚓🧇🚊🐬🚁🏓🐦
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TAMBOURINE
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About this pack

The music pack covers the instruments you would meet in a school orchestra or a first music lesson: piano, guitar, drums, violin, flute. Each hint describes how the instrument is played or what it is made of — blown from the side, played with a bow, struck for beats — which makes the clues a small lesson in how instruments work as well as a route to the answer.

Solving tips

• Most answers are five to six letters, so count the emoji and rule out the instruments that do not fit.
• The hint describes the playing technique. Bow, pick, keys and breath each point at a different family.
• Vowels cluster in these names — PIANO and VIOLIN are three vowels each. Repeated emoji are usually vowels.

Common questions

Are the answers shown?

Yes. Open the panel under a puzzle to see the instrument.

Do I need to play an instrument?

No. The hints describe how each instrument is played, so the clue carries the knowledge you need.