| 100% | LUTANISTS | 9 | Medieval players of guitar-like instruments |
| 51% | CELLIST | 7 | Player of stringed instrument |
| 51% | OBOIST | 6 | Player of woodwind instrument |
| 50% | LUTE | 4 | Ancient guitar-like instrument whose name is a homophone of "loot" |
| 49% | LUTENISTS | 9 | Those who play medieval guitar-like instruments |
| 49% | TUBIST | 6 | Player of a large brass instrument |
| 48% | HARPIST | 7 | Player of a large-framed stringed instrument |
| 48% | BANJOIST | 8 | Player of a twangy round stringed instrument |
| 48% | BAGPIPER | 8 | Player of an instrument associated with Scotland |
| 48% | BAGPIPER | 8 | Player of a Scottish bellow wind instrument |
| 48% | CELLIST | 7 | Player of a large bass stringed instrument |
| 48% | LYRIST | 6 | Player of an old instrument |
| 45% | EUROPEAN | 8 | Like half of all Ryder Cup players |
| 44% | APT | 3 | Like type of guitar pupil |
| 44% | TWANGY | 6 | Like the sound of a pedal steel guitar |
| 44% | TALL | 4 | Like many NBA players in terms of height |
| 44% | TUNE | 4 | Adjust, like strings of a guitar |
| 43% | SHAWM | 5 | Medieval wind instrument; an ancestor of the modern oboe |
| 43% | ACOUSTIC | 8 | Like a piece of music played without electric instruments |
| 42% | ASTROLABE | 9 | Medieval instrument used to determine the altitude of the sun |
| 42% | FIPPLE | 6 | The mouthpiece of an instrument like a recorder |
| 42% | UKULELE | 7 | Small, guitar-like instrument |
| 42% | LUTE | 4 | Guitar-like Renaissance instrument |
| 41% | OBOE | 4 | Instrument whose name sounds like a rebuke of Obama's dog |
| 41% | LUTE | 4 | Guitar-like instrument with a bent neck |
| 41% | BANJO | 5 | Guitar-like instrument that can be plucked |
| 40% | FBS | 3 | Positions of players like Mike Tolbert and Jim Taylor: Abbr. |
| 40% | UKULELES | 8 | Small guitar-like instruments from Hawaii |
| 40% | TUNE | 4 | Adjust the pitch of, like an instrument |
| 40% | UKE | 3 | Small guitar-like instrument, for short |