Pleasing to the ears; pleasant-sounding. Of a musical instrument: making or emitting a gentle, smooth, and relatively quiet sound.

In figurative and immaterial applications. Of majestic sound.

figurative and in extended use. spec. (chiefly poetic). Of (part of) a musical instrument. Obsolete.

Designating an instrument falling between soprano and bass in range or size, or constituting the second or third highest member of a family in…

Applied to instruments of other kinds taking a similar part; chiefly attributive as contrabass posaune a kind of trombone, contrabass tuba the…

attributive or as adj. transferred. Of certain musical instruments, as soprano cornet, soprano trombone; soprano saxophone n. the second highest…

Of an instrument: occurring in a ‘family’ of instruments between the tenor and the bass. So baritone horn n. (a) = A. 3(b); (b) U.S. a baritone…

Music. = monophonic, adj. 2.

Like or resembling tin or that of tin; characteristic of tin; esp. of sounds; in Painting, hard, crude, metallic. Also applied dismissively to (a…

Of or pertaining to such an instrument, as a recorder.

Of a musical instrument: played in such a way as to produce short, sharp, tinny, or ringing sounds; (of music) characterized by this. Cf. plink, v.…