Instrumental

1 Which 1972 album by Elton John included the track Crocodile Rock?

2 Beethoven’s Fifth is said to be the first symphony to include which musical instrument?

3 Which song penned by Bob Dylan was a chart topper for The Byrds?

4 Which 2001 film starring Nicolas Cage was adapted from a novel by Louis de Bernieres?

5 Which TV show is introduced by an instrumental theme entitled Approaching Menace?

6 Who created the oriental villain Fu Manchu?

7 What did Jim Reeves hear the sound of in a posthumous 1966 hit?

8 Which instrument’s name translates into English as jumping flea?

9 A bansuri in India and a khlui in Thailand are both types of what?

10 What is the French name for the English horn?

11 Which instrument derived from the Aboriginal people of the Kakudu region of Australia?

12 76 Trombones in a Big Parade. How many cornets followed right behind?

13 What type of harp is named after the Greek god of the wind?

14 Which song contains the line,” Let me hear your balalaikas ringing out”?

15 Crash, hi-hat, ride, splash and zil are all types of what?

16 Which Irish born musician is known as the Man with the Golden Flute?

17 Which instrument did Acker Bilk play on the hit single Stranger on the Shore?

18 What instrument is known as a fagotto in the Italian language?

19 On which part of the bagpipes is the melody played?

20 Which instrument’s name derives from the Greek for beautiful sounding?

21 What is plucked with a mezrab?

22 What instrument does Lisa Simpson play?

23 Who became known as the Man with the Golden Trumpet?

24 What is sometimes referred as a tin sandwich?

25 Bartolomeo Christofori is credited with inventing which modern day instrument?

Answers to Instrumental

1 Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano Player
2 Trombone
3 Mr Tambourine Man
4 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
5 Mastermind
6 Sax Rohmer
7 Distant Drums
8 Ukulele
9 Flute
10 Cor Anglais
11 Didgeridoo
12 110
13 Aeolian harp
14 Back in the USSR
15 Cymbals
16 James Galway
17 Clarinet
18 Bassoon
19 The chanter
20 Euphonium
21 Sitar
22 Saxophone
23 Eddie Calvert
24 Harmonica
25 Piano