| — |  | PianoEvery other instrument makes sense afterwards | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | GuitarSix strings and a lifetime of almost | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | ViolinTwo years before it stops sounding like pain | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | DrumsPhysically the hardest and the most fun | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | SaxophoneCool by default, difficult in practice | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | CelloThe register closest to a human voice | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | TrumpetLoud enough to be a problem indoors | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | HarpForty-seven strings and seven pedals | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Double BassFelt more than actually heard | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | FluteThe breath control is the whole battle | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | AccordionTwo hands doing completely unrelated jobs | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Pipe OrganHands, feet, and a building for a speaker | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | BanjoFive strings and a metallic ring | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | MandolinSmall, bright and doubled strings | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | UkuleleFour strings and an easy start | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | HarmonicaFits in a pocket, sounds like a road | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | ClarinetWoody, warm and technically demanding | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | OboeThe note the whole orchestra tunes to | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | French HornBeautiful, and famously unforgiving | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | TromboneThe only brass with a slide | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | TubaThe floor of the whole band | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | SitarSympathetic strings and a long neck | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | KotoThirteen strings across a long body | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | ErhuTwo strings and a very human tone | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | BagpipesLoud, ancient and impossible to practise quietly | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Steel PanTuned metal and a tropical ring | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | MarimbaWooden bars and four mallets | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | ThereminPlayed without touching it at all | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Pipe FluteSimple, breathy and very old | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | Electric BassNobody notices until it stops | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | SynthesizerAn instrument you also have to design | — win | — match wins |
| — |  | CajonA box you sit on and play | — win | — match wins |