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n. Music One who plays an instrument.

n. An advocate or a student of instrumentalism.

adj. Of, relating to, or advocating instrumentalism.

n. One who plays a musical instrument, as distinguished from a vocalist

n. One who plays upon an instrument of music, as distinguished from a vocalist.

n. In music, a performer upon an instrument: opposed to vocalist.

n. someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession)

"In the same way as Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie documented their era in the early 20th century with their songs, the instrumentalist is the torchbearer of a centuries-old tradition in the virtually unwritten Arabic music culture."

vocalist   

performer    performing artist   

jazzman    trumpeter    vocaliser    flute player    rhythm and blues musician    bassist    piano player    violinist    lutenist    trombone player   

environmentalist    experimentalist    fundamentalist   

declaim    guitarist    lyricist    songwriter    cithern    wood-wind    faxer    kettledrum    choreographers    bandleader