'Players' - men - start to charm broken hearts (9)
I believe the answer is:
orchestra
'players' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'men start to charm broken hearts' is the wordplay.
'men' becomes 'or' (military abbreviation for Other Ranks).
'start to' indicates taking the first letters.
'broken' indicates anagramming the letters.
The initial letter of 'charm' is 'c'.
'hearts' with letters rearranged gives 'hestra'.
'or'+'c'+'hestra'='ORCHESTRA'
(Other definitions for orchestra that I've seen before include "Company of musicians" , "Large band of players" , "bandsmen?" , "Carthorse (anag)" , "Large group of instrumentalists" .)