Instrument Phrases

Phrases

• Air guitar
• Blow your own trumpet
• Blunt instrument
• Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Louis de Bernieres book)
• Guitar Man (Elvis Presley song)
• Harp on about
• Harp puts out the fire (Harp Lager advertising slogan)
• I took my harp to the party but no one asked me to play
• I want to talk to the organ grinder not the monkey
• Kick the gong around
• Organ donor
• Steinway: the instrument of the immortals (Steinway Pianos advertising slogan)
• Sweet Music (Nickname of Frank Viola)
• The Gong (Nickname of Wollongong New South Wales)
• While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Beatles song)
• Whistle and flute (Cockney rhyming slang for suit)