Do you put the in front of musical instruments?

It is not necessary to add the in front of a musical instrument, not all musical instruments in English are preceded by the definite article "the". If it's a Western instrument, you need to add the, such as play the piano, play the guitar, but if it's a Chinese instrument, you can't, such as play erhu, play pipa.

The definite article is not used in front of traditional Chinese musical instruments (or Hanyu Pinyin musical instruments, to be more precise). "the", if it indicates a specific quantity, such as an erhu, the indefinite article is used before it. When you play a musical instrument, add the before the instrument.

Musical instruments, English: musical instruments, refers to a variety of ways to play the tone of the instrument. They are generally categorized as ethnic instruments and Western instruments.

Instruments that can produce musical sounds and recreate the art of music. Humans play musical instruments to express and communicate thoughts and feelings. The definition of musical instruments, the music industry and instrumental science have different views.

The music industry believes that, for the music of the vocal apparatus is a musical instrument; instrumental science is usually many non-musical field of the vocal apparatus, such as the ancient war in the sound of gold drums, religious prayers and chanting in the hammering of the magic weapon, wedding and funeral ceremonial signals, vendors soliciting signals, and so on, are also regarded as a musical instrument.

Even some of the production and labor tools and daily utensils, such as: bow, saw, pestle, percussion, cups, saucers, cups, bowls, etc., in the performance, are crowned with the word "music", called the music bow, music saw, music cups, music pestle and so on.