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Instrument is British with extremely unusual enamel engraving on top (7)

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I believe the answer is:

ukulele

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'instrument' is the definition.
(ukulele is a kind of instrument)

'british with extremely unusual enamel engraving on top' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'british' could be 'uk' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'uk' is found in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for ukulele that I've seen before include "Musical instrument once played by George Formby" , "Small 4-stringed guitar" , "One needs pluck in this" , "Small type of guitar" , "Small Hawaiian guitar" .)

I've seen this clue in The Hindu.
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