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Answer for the clue "Musical instrument ", 9 letters:
saxophone

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Word definitions for saxophone in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1851, from French saxophone , named for Antoine Joseph "Adolphe" Sax (1814-1894), Belgian instrument maker who devised it c.1840, + Greek -phonos "voiced, sounding." His father, Charles Joseph (1791-1865) invented the less popular saxhorn (1845). The surname ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Saxophone \Sax"o*phone\, n. [A.A.J. Sax, the inventor (see Saxhorn ) + Gr. ? tone.] (Mus.) A wind instrument of brass, containing a reed, and partaking of the qualities both of a brass instrument and of a clarinet.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context musical instruments English) A single-reed instrument musical instrument of the woodwind family, usually made of brass and with a distinctive loop bringing the bell upwards.

Usage examples of saxophone.

I play the saxophone at the Bonhomie Club on Friday and Saturday nights.

The half-light and smoochy saxophone made him want to push his shoes off, maybe wiggle his toes a little.

The gold saxophone receiver feels heavy and stagy, a prop, as if this call needs any more drama.

Saxophone music from the Moonwalk and jazz from Jackson Square beyond filtered through the sultry, humid August night.

Rock, jazz, and Zydeco vied for sound supremacy, along with the notes of a lone saxophone being played somewhere in the distance.

Rogers was quiet, inhabited only by a couple of hookers, a man playing John Coltrane on the saxophone, two Russian drunks, and a figure in black rubber who defied description.

Playroom--an obvious converted warehouse with plaster saxophones, trumpets and music clefs alternating across the edge of the roof.

The perky wail of a saxophone echoed along the tunnel: Burt Bacharach and Hal David's "I'll Never Fall In Love Again," being played more or less competently.

Don Tico beat his pitch pipe in the air, the clarinets whined with exhaustion, the saxophones gave strangled bleats, the bombardons and the trumpets let out squeals of agony, but they made it, all the way to the village, to the foot of the steep path that led to the cemetery.

But this time it is a nuptial darkness whose solemnity is marred by no caterwaulings, no Liebestods, no saxophones pleading for detumescence.

Zebra stripes comprised the paint job on Tommy Tucker's Playroom--an obvious converted warehouse with plaster saxophones, trumpets and music clefs alternating across the edge of the roof.

Zebra stripes comprised the paint job on Tommy Tucker’s Playroom--an obvious converted warehouse with plaster saxophones, trumpets and music clefs alternating across the edge of the roof.

He put CDs by Sonny Rollins, Frank Morgan, and Branford Marsalis into the stereo and listened to the saxophone instead.

Besides, she loved an alto sax, a certain Papi, a mangy horror, he seemed to me, but she only had eyes for him, as he bleated lasciviously, because the saxophone, when it isn’.

Besides, she loved an alto sax, a certain Papi, a mangy horror, he seemed to me, but she only had eyes for him, as he bleated lasciviously, because the saxophone, when it isn't Ornette Coleman's and it's part of a band-and played by the horrendous Papi-is a goatish, guttural instrument, with the voice of, say, a fashion model who's taken to drink and turning tricks.