antique instrument
Old collectible tool
An antique instrument is a musical instrument of significant age, typically at least a century old, valued for its craftsmanship, historical significance, or distinctive sound quality.
Collectors and musicians prize antique instruments like Stradivari violins or early fortepianos both as artifacts and as playable objects: She performs exclusively on antique instruments.
The term also applies to old scientific or navigational devices—sextants, astrolabes, sundials—though context usually makes the meaning clear.
- harpsichordPlucked-string keyboard instrument
- pipe organWind instrument with tuned tubes
- early musicPre-1750 Western compositions
- lutePear-bodied fretted strings
- gramophoneDisc-playing sound machine
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antique instrumentreproduction
Copying or procreation
replica · forgery · counterfeit · imitation · knockoff
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