One of my neighbors will soon graduate with a degree in Music Education. Per her request, here are some words for expressing your choice of musical instrument in Esperanto! I couldn’t hope to represent an entire orchestra’s worth of instruments, but I figured I would offer you a list of some of the more common instruments you might have encountered. The world of music is vast…much too much to cover in a single post, so feel free to comment with any additions!

Instrument – instrumento
Guitar – gitaro
Bass – basagitaro
Drum – tamburo
Violin – violono
Saxophone – saksofono
Trumpet – trumpeto
Oboe – hobojo
Trombone – trombono
Cello – violoncxelo