| 100% | TABLA | 5 | Instrument for Zakir Hussain and Anuradha Pal |
| 38% | LYRES | 5 | Instruments for Orpheus and Erato |
| 37% | SITARS | 6 | Instruments for Ravi and Anoushka Shankar |
| 36% | BUGLE | 5 | Instrument for playing "Reveille" and "Taps" |
| 36% | BASS | 4 | Instrument for Jaco Pastorius, Kim Gordon, and Thundercat |
| 36% | COMPASS | 7 | Instrument for drawing circles and arcs |
| 35% | ANEMOMETER | 10 | Instrument for recording the speed and direction of wind |
| 35% | FLUTE | 5 | Instrument for Jean-Pierre Rampal, James Galway, and Lizzo |
| 35% | SITARS | 6 | Instruments for Annapurna Devi and Anoushka Shankar |
| 35% | ALTOSAXES | 9 | Instruments for Charlie Parker and Cannonball Adderley |
| 35% | TENORSAXOPHONES | 15 | Instruments for John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins |
| 34% | TENORSAX | 8 | Instrument for John Coltrane and Bill Clinton: 2 wds. |
| 34% | CANTATA | 7 | Piece for voices and instruments |
| 33% | CLARINET | 8 | Wind instrument for the Cat in Peter and the Wolf |
| 33% | SAX | 3 | Instrument with alto and tenor varieties, for short |
| 33% | SAX | 3 | Instrument with tenor and alto varieties, for short |
| 33% | FRENEMIES | 9 | Portmanteau word for pals and adversaries |
| 32% | SAX | 3 | Instrument played by David Sanborn and Clarence Clemons, for short |
| 32% | MANOMETER | 9 | Instrument used for measuring the pressure of liquids and gases |
| 29% | TOGAS | 5 | Cloaks for Caesar and his pals |
| 28% | RAZORS | 6 | Sharp bladed instruments for close shaves and trims in a salon |
| 28% | CANTATA | 7 | Musical composition for voices and instruments in several movements, usually on a religious theme |
| 28% | LEVER | 5 | Instrument for lifting |
| 28% | LYRE | 4 | Instrument for Orpheus |
| 28% | PIANO | 5 | Instrument for Rachmaninoff |
| 28% | PRESS | 5 | Instrument for garlic |
| 28% | SCALE | 5 | Instrument for weighing |
| 28% | DUCKCALL | 8 | Instrument for quacks? |
| 28% | LYRE | 4 | Instrument for Apollo |
| 28% | CELLOS | 6 | Instruments for Rostropovich |