| 100% | IDIOPHONE | 9 | Any instrument that creates sound with vibration |
| 47% | GONGS | 5 | Instruments that may create a meditative sound bath |
| 41% | KAZOO | 5 | Instrument that creates a buzz? |
| 40% | KAZOO | 5 | Instrument that creates a buzzing noise |
| 40% | KAZOO | 5 | Instrument that creates quite a buzz |
| 39% | BASS | 4 | Instrument that sounds fishy? |
| 39% | LYRE | 4 | Instrument that sounds deceptive? |
| 38% | OBOE | 4 | Instrument that rhymes with "hobo" |
| 38% | LUTE | 4 | Instrument that sounds like money |
| 37% | HIHAT | 5 | Instrument that makes a "tsst" sound |
| 37% | OBOE | 4 | Instrument that sounds like a duck |
| 37% | ORGAN | 5 | Instrument that makes sound through pressurized air |
| 37% | CELESTA | 7 | Instrument that sounds much like a glockenspiel |
| 36% | SAXOPHONE | 9 | Instrument that must be played with the mouth |
| 36% | SITAR | 5 | Instrument that may be played with a mizrab |
| 36% | CYMBAL | 6 | Musical instrument that makes clashing sound |
| 36% | OBOE | 4 | Musical instrument that rhymes with "hobo" |
| 36% | OBOE | 4 | Musical instrument that rhymes with "lobo" |
| 36% | TUBA | 4 | Heavy instrument that makes deep sounds |
| 36% | CELESTAS | 8 | Keyboard instruments that sound like glockenspiels |
| 35% | KAZOO | 5 | Musical instrument that makes a buzzing sound |
| 35% | TUBA | 4 | Heavy brass instrument that makes deep sounds |
| 35% | OBOE | 4 | Instrument with a 'bright' sound |
| 35% | GUITAR | 6 | Instrument that, fittingly, shares an etymology with “cithara” and “zither” |
| 35% | SITAR | 5 | Stringed instrument that rhymes with another stringed instrument |
| 35% | BATON | 5 | Orchestral instrument that doesn't make a sound |
| 35% | KAZOO | 5 | Simple musical instrument that makes a buzzing sound |
| 34% | MARIMBA | 7 | Instrument that shares its name with a figure from Zulu folklore |
| 34% | KAZOO | 5 | Instrument that might be made with a comb and wax paper |
| 34% | DYNAMO | 6 | Generator that creates current with a commutator |