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Quiz Monkey |
| Arts & Entertainment |
| Pop Music |
| Instruments |
| Company that makes guitars known as the Telecaster, Stratocaster, Precision bass and Jazz bass |
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Fender |
| Company that makes the legendary Les Paul guitar; other brands include the Flying V, Explorer, Firebird, Byrdland and Nighthawk |
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Gibson |
| Guitar, tea chest, washboard: typical instrumental line–up of a group in (musical genre) |
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Skiffle |
| Q: With which instrument is (or are) ... (chiefly) associated? | A: | |
Steve Martin and Kermit the Frog
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Banjo |
| Suzi Quatro |
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Bass guitar |
| Jimmy Yancey, Pete Johnson, Meade Lux Lewis and Albert Ammonds were four of the principal exponents of |
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Boogie–woogie piano |
| Pablo Casals, Jacqueline du Pre, Julian Lloyd–Webber, Yo–Yo Ma, Paul Tortelier, Mstislav Rostropovich |
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Cello |
| Sheku Kanneh–Mason – the first black winner of BBC Young Musician of the Year (2016); previously a contestant on Britain's Got Talent, along with his five siblings | ||
| Reginald Dixon |
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Cinema organ |
| Benny Goodman, Woody Herman, Artie Shaw, Acker Bilk |
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Clarinet |
| King Oliver, Bix Beiderbecke |
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Cornet |
| Charles Mingus (also dabbled with piano and 'cello) |
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Double bass |
| Karen Carpenter, Buddy Rich, Buddy Greco, Gene Krupa, Max Roach, Billy Cobham |
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Drums |
| Jimi Hendrix |
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Fender Stratocaster |
| Ian Anderson (front man and singer of Jethro Tull) |
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Flute |
| Kenny Burrell, Eddie Condon, Barney Kessel, Pat Metheny, Les Paul, Django Reinhart, Andrés Segovia |
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Guitar |
| Larry Adler |
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Harmonica |
| Sidonie Goossens |
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Harp |
| Herbie Hancock |
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Keyboards |
| Leon Goossens |
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Oboe |
| Count Basie, Dave Brubeck, Chick Corea, Duke Ellington, Keith Jarrett, Stan Kenton, Thelonius Monk, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum, Stan Tracey, Fats Waller; Chico Marx |
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Piano |
| Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz, Lester Young, Courtney Pine, John Coltrane |
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Saxophone |
| Charlie 'Bird' Parker, 'Cannonball' Adderley, Ornette Coleman |
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Alto saxophone |
| Coleman Hawkins |
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Tenor saxophone |
| Glenn Miller, Jack Teagarden, Tommy Dorsey |
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Trombone |
| Louis Armstrong, Harry James, Dizzy Gillespie, Wynton Marsalis, Miles Davis, Humphrey Lyttelton, Chet Baker |
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Trumpet |
| Lionel Hampton |
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Vibraphone |
| Jack Benny, Kyung–Wha Chung, Pinchas Zuckerman, David and Igor Oistrakh, Fritz Kreisler, Vanessa–Mae
(Vanakorn Nicholson)
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Violin |
| Patrick Moore |
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Xylophone |
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