Coda - Closing section of a composition. An added ending.

Open fifth - A triad without a third.

Album - A full length recording. In pop music, it contains a number of songs.

Soldered Toneholes - Toneholes on metal body instruments (i.e. flutes and saxes) which are made of separate pieces of metal, joined to the body by soldering. The extra weight of the solder gives the instrument a slightly heavier, more solid sound. Also see Soft-Soldered or Tone Holes.

Gilo stones - (Solomon Islands, Pacific) music is created by striking certain stones with bamboo sticks of varying lengths, prodrucing mellifluous xylpophonic sounds, like running water.

Turn - A musical ornament characterized by the rapid performance of a given note, the major or minor second above and below, and a return to the given note.

Clarsach - Scottish folk harp, 25 to 34 strings usually.

Modern - Music written in the 20th century or contempory music.

Rojok - 'Vladimirskii Rojok': russian trumpet carved from a single piece of wood, usually apple wood.

Spiccato - On string instruments, a bowing technique wherein the bow is bounced on the string at moderate speed.

Tuning Slide Ring - A ring which allows the player's finger to control the length of a valve slide for adjustments in tuning.