In English collocation, is the musical instrument preceded by the?

All western instruments must be preceded by "the", while Chinese instruments cannot be preceded by "the", but usually the first letter of instruments needs to be capitalized, such as playing erhu? Play erhu and pipa? Play the pipa.

Except Chinese musical instruments, you can't add "the" before all ball games. For example: playing football? Playing football and volleyball? Play volleyball.

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Common western musical instruments

First of all, the piano

English [p? ? n？ ]? Beauty [pi'ɑno? ]

piano

mild

gently

She is learning to play the piano.

She is learning to play the piano.

Second, the violin

English [? va？ l？ n]？ Beauty [? “va，”l？ n]

violin

The audience listened attentively to the violin solo.

The audience responded enthusiastically to the violin solo.