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A number of musicians who play together upon portable musical instruments, especially those making a loud sound, as certain wind instruments (trumpets, clarinets, etc.), and drums, or cymbals.

A musical stringed instrument, similar in form to a guitar; a pandore.

A stringed musical instrument having a head and neck like the guitar, and its body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is played with the fingers and hands.

A stringed musical instrument having a head and neck like the guitar, and its body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and is played with the fingers and hands.

An instrument for determining the delicacy of the sense of pressure. -- Bar`æs*the`si*o*met"ric, Bar`es*the`si*o*met"ric (#), a.

An ancient Greek instrument resembling a lyre.

Instruments used in taking off the bark of trees. Gardner.

An instrument for pinching a horse's nose, and thus restraining him.

An instrument for recording automatically the variations of atmospheric pressure.

An instrument for ascertaining the weight and length of a newborn infant.

An instrument for determining the weight or pressure of the atmosphere, and hence for judging of the probable changes of weather, or for ascertaining the height of any ascent.

Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of the atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates - or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes.

An instrument for recording both pressure and temperature, as of the atmosphere.

-- Barrel of the ear (Anat.), the tympanum, or tympanic cavity. -- Barrel organ, an instrument for producing music by the action of a revolving cylinder. -- Barrel vault. See under Vault.

sound. (Mus.) (a) The lowest part; the deepest male voice. (b) One who sings, or the instrument which plays, base. [Now commonly written bass.] The trebles squeak for fear, the bases roar. Dryden.

One who sings, or the instrument which plays, bass. [Written also base.] Thorough bass. See Thorough bass.

A stringed instrument of the viol family, used for playing bass. See 3d Bass, n., and Violoncello.

An instrument blown with a reed, and resembling a clarinet, but of much greater compass, embracing nearly four octaves.

A wind instrument of the double reed kind, furnished with holes, which are stopped by the fingers, and by keys, as in flutes. It forms the natural bass to the oboe, clarinet, etc.

An instrument for measuring depths, esp. one for taking soundings without a sounding line.