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New harmonica dispensing with rudiments of historic musical instrument (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

ocarina

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'musical instrument' is the definition.
(ocarina is a type of wind instrument)

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(Other definitions for ocarina that I've seen before include "Small egg-shaped wind instrument with holes for the fingers" , "toy instrument" , "Inca oar made into a musical instrument" , "it's blown in pieces" , "dated instrument" .)

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