acb, aml, bou, cle, emp, llo, nds, rro, ssi, ymb
The above line lists 10 triplets, each a part of one of 10 words, belonging to a well defined set.
Name the words and comment on the set's origin.
Macbeth
Hamlet
Love's Labour's Lost
Pericles | Antony and Cleopatra
Tempest
Othello
All's Well That Ends Well | The Merry Wives of Windsor
Comedy of Errors
Troilus and Cressida
Cymbeline
I had easily composed the above list after Ady's hint. (I should have figured it out from the puzzle's title that musical instruments was not the list asked for, but as I had already composed a list of musical instruments in the manner as had Charlie in his previous post, I submit it:
acb - sacbut: a medieval trombone-esque instrument
aml - agung a tamlang: a Philippine bamboo slit drum
bou - baboula: a Grenadian barrel drum
bamboula: a Virgian Island drum
bouzouki: a Greek lute
Irish bouzouki: an Irish version of the bouzouki
daraboukka: a Syrian drum
tambour: a French drum
tamboura: an Asian guitar-like musical instrument
tambourine: a small drum with loose metallic disks
cle - ophicleide: a keyed bass brass musical instrument
serpentcleide: an ophicleide-like woodwind
emp - tjelempung | celempung: a Javanese zither
llo - mandocello: a mondolin-like musical instrument
mellophone: a three-valved brass instrument
mellotron: an electro-mechanical, polyphonic keyboard
metallophone: any musical instrument of tuned metal bars
soprillo: a type of saxophone
violoncello (cello)
willow flute
nds - woodwinds
clapped hands: a percussion instrument
rro - chitarrone: a lute-like musical plucked string instrument
guitarron: a Mexican six-string acoustic bass guitar
ssi - classical guitar: a Spanish six-string guitar
sopranissimo saxophone: a saxophone (soprillo)
kussier: a Turkish banjo-like musical instrument
percussion: any musical instrument producing sound arising
from striking of materials with sticks, hammers, or the hands
vocal percussion: the use of the human voicebox as a
percussion instrument
ymb - cymbal: a musical metal percussion instrument
finger cymbals: small cymbals worn and used by the fingers
clavicymbal: an early Italian harpischord
tsymbaly: a Ukranian hammer dulcimer chordophone
cymbalum: a medieval tintinabula-like instrument; and a
Western European hammered dulcimer
Edited on December 9, 2014, 6:04 am
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Posted by Dej Mar
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