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Room only for music maker (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

cello

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'music maker' is the definition.
(cello is a kind of musical instrument)

'room only' is the wordplay.
'room' becomes 'cell' (cell is a kind of room).
'only' becomes 'o' (this might be a standard abbreviation which I don't know about).
'cell'+'o'='CELLO'

'for' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for cello that I've seen before include "Tortelier's instrument" , "Viola's bigger brother?" , "has strings attached" , "large-scale fiddle" , "big fiddle?" .)

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