| 100% | TIMPANI | 7 | Musical percussion instruments also called kettledrums |
| 56% | STEAMORGAN | 10 | Musical instrument also called a calliope |
| 55% | HARMONICA | 9 | Musical instrument also called the mouth organ |
| 55% | MARACA | 6 | Musical instrument also called a chac-chac |
| 54% | HAWAIIAN | 8 | Musical instrument also called an acoustic lap steel guitar |
| 51% | MBIRA | 5 | African musical instrument also called a thumb piano |
| 50% | CITTERN | 7 | Renaissance stringed musical instrument also called a cithren |
| 48% | THUMBPIANO | 10 | African musical instrument also called an mbira whose tuned strips vibrate when plucked |
| 47% | MARACAS | 7 | Instruments also called rumba shakers |
| 47% | XYLOPHONE | 9 | Musical percussion instrument; marimba, balafon |
| 47% | OBOE | 4 | Instrument also called a hautbois |
| 47% | PANPIPE | 7 | Instrument also called a syrinx |
| 47% | PIANOLA | 7 | Type of mechanical musical instrument also called a player piano |
| 45% | JAMAICAN | 8 | & 8D Tree of the pea family also called cocuswood whose wood is used for making reeded wooden musical instruments |
| 43% | DRUM | 4 | Musical percussion instrument consisting of a membrane stretched over a shell |
| 42% | OCARINA | 7 | Egg-shaped wind instrument also called a sweet potato |
| 42% | THUMB | 5 | & 26A African musical instrument also called an mbira with a row of tuned strips that vibrate when plucked |
| 39% | MARIMBA | 7 | Percussion instrument that's also the name of a popular ringtone |
| 39% | WATERPHONE | 10 | Musical instrument that can emulate whale calls |
| 38% | HARMONICA | 9 | Musical instrument also known as a mouth organ |
| 38% | VUVUZELA | 8 | Musical horn also called a lepatata |
| 38% | EIGHTHNOTE | 10 | Musical symbol also called a quaver |
| 38% | TRIANGLE | 8 | Three-sided shape, also a musical instrument |
| 37% | TRITONE | 7 | Musical interval also called "the devil's interval" |
| 36% | VIOLA | 5 | "Twelfth night" role that's also a musical instrument |
| 35% | SAW | 3 | Tool that can also be used as a musical instrument |
| 34% | MBIRA | 5 | African musical instrument also known as a thumb piano |
| 34% | XXXXX | 5 | Instrument that's also a musical term for "soft," abbreviated by its first letter |