| 100% | VIOLA | 5 | Solo instrument in Benjamin Britten’s “Lachrymae” |
| 79% | VIOLA | 5 | Solo part in Benjamin Britten's "Lachrymae" |
| 68% | OBOE | 4 | The only instrument in Benjamin Britten's "Six Metamorphoses After Ovid" |
| 54% | PIANO | 5 | Solo instrument in Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto |
| 52% | CELLO | 5 | Solo instrument in Camille Saint-Saëns’s “The Swan” |
| 46% | OBOE | 4 | Instrument with a brief solo in Beethoven's Fifth |
| 45% | VIOLA | 5 | Instrument with a solo in Berlioz's "Harold in Italy" |
| 45% | SAX | 3 | Instrument with a solo in Springsteen's "Born to Run" |
| 44% | SAX | 3 | Instrument with a notable solo in Springsteen's "Born to Run" |
| 44% | OBOE | 4 | Instrument with a solo in Seal's "Kiss From a Rose" |
| 44% | CELLOS | 6 | Instruments played pizzicato in Britten's "Simple Symphony" |
| 44% | OBOE | 4 | Instrument in a Vaughan Williams concerto solo |
| 43% | PEARS | 5 | Peter —, English tenor who created the role of Peter Quint in Benjamin Britten's 1954 opera The Turn of the Screw |
| 39% | OWEN | 4 | & 24A Benjamin Britten opera for BBC TV first broadcast in 1971 |
| 39% | FERRIER | 7 | Kathleen —, British contralto who created the title role in Benjamin Britten opera The Rape of Lucretia |
| 38% | SAXES | 5 | Instruments in Ravel's "Boléro" |
| 38% | CELLO | 5 | Instrument in Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet |
| 37% | OCARINA | 7 | Wind instrument with a solo in the Troggs’s “Wild Thing” |
| 37% | LETS | 4 | & 7D Benjamin Britten work subtitled An Entertainment for Young People first performed in 1949 |
| 37% | VIOL | 4 | Instrument in Vermeer's "The Music Lesson" |
| 37% | BLOWTORCH | 9 | Instrument in a metalworker's union? |
| 36% | KAZOO | 5 | Instrument in Pink Floyd's "Jugband Blues" |
| 36% | OBOE | 4 | Instrument in Joan Tower's "Island Prelude" |
| 36% | HARP | 4 | Musical instrument in Guinness's logo |
| 35% | SAX | 3 | Instrument in Glenn Miller's "Pennsylvania 6-5000" |
| 35% | ANVIL | 5 | Percussion instrument in "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" |
| 35% | OBOE | 4 | Wind instrument in Donovan's "Jennifer Juniper" |
| 35% | TUTTI | 5 | Solo's opposite, in music |