Characters from Sesame Street and related productions who can play musical instruments.
Abby Cadabby[]
- Trombone — Fairy Face the Music
- Timpani — Episode 4326
- Guitar — "I Live in Two Different Worlds", Episode 4607
Alice Snuffleupagus[]
- Cello — Big Bird Meets the Orchestra
The Amazing Mumford[]
- Glockenspiel — Episode 2996
Baby Bear[]
- Piano — Do the Alphabet
- Tambourine — "Gospel Alphabet"
- Trumpet — "Between"
- Ukelele — "The Sesame Street Alphabet"
Bert[]
- Bass — "Lonesome Joan"
- Guitar — "I Got a Song"
- Tympani — Big Bird Meets the Orchestra
- Accordion — Elmo's Birthday Party
- Drums — Oscar's Grouchmas
- Tuba — Foley & Friends (Instruments)
Betty Lou[]
- Violin - Big Bird Plays the Violin
- Oboe — Big Bird Meets the Orchestra
Big Bird[]
- Glockenspiel — Bert & Ernie Sing-Along
- Drum — Episode 1007, Episode 3875, Peter and the Wolf
- Cymbal — Episode 1007
- Bugle — Episode 1007
- Piano — Episode 1915, Episode 3507
- Tambourine — "Here We Go"
- Saxophone — Me Want Cookie
- Violin - Big Bird Plays the Violin
- Xylophone — Episode 0167
Big Jeffie[]
- Drums — Episode 2867
- Keyboard — Episode 3898
Bob[]
- Piano — music teacher by profession
- Recorder — Episode 1479
- Guitar — Episode 1600
- Flute — Episode 1680, Episode 1703, Episode 2020, Episode 2147, Episode 2573
- Harmonica — Episode 2147
Buster the Horse[]
- Piano — "What's the Name of That Song?"
Clementine[]
- Guitar — "I'm a Real Cowboy"
Cookie Monster[]
- Flute — Sesame Street sketch; "musical banana" as flute in 1969 sketch and in 1973 remake
- Ukulele — Ernie Presents the Letter "U"
- Bass drum — "Me Going to Munch You, Munch You, Munch You", "I Live in Two Different Worlds", Bert & Ernie Sing-Along
- Piano — "C is for Cookie" in Bert & Ernie Sing-Along
- Clarinet — Big Bird Meets the Orchestra
Count von Count[]
- Piano — "If I Knew You Were Coming I'd've Baked a Cake", Big Bird Meets the Orchestra
- Violin — Episode 1009, "The Transylvania Polka", Episode 1731, Episode 1972, The Sesame Street Dictionary, Elmo's ABC Book
- Pipe Organ — "Eight Beautiful Notes", "The Batty Bat", "Twenty-something", Number of the Day
- Guitar — "You Gotta Count My Blue Suede Shoes"
- Tambourine — "Gospel Alphabet"
Daniel[]
- Saxophone — various
Deena[]
- Recorder — Episode 1489
- Clarinet — Episode 1490
- Piano — Episode 1526
Don Music[]
- Piano — virtually every sketch he appears in
Elmo[]
- Violin — Episode 2221, Prairie Dawn sketch, Episode 3261, Episode 3317, Episode 3750, Peter and the Wolf, Episode 3961, Episode 3994, Elmo's World: Ears, Elmo's World: Violins
- Piano — Episode 2577, "Elmo's Song", Elmo's World segments, Episode 4607, Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration, Episode 5125, Foley & Friends (Instruments), The Masked Singer
- Flute — Big Bird Meets the Orchestra
- Drum — Episode 3776, Episode 3950, Episode 3961, Episode 4031, Episode 4062
- Cymbals — "Elmo's World: Sleep"
- Trumpet — Talk, Listen, Connect: Deployments
- Ukelele — Episode 4169
- Guitar — "Elmo's Ducks"
- Tambourine — "I Live in Two Different Worlds"
- Sousaphone — Me Want Cookie
Ernie[]
- Ukulele — Sesame Street sketch
- Drums — various
- Clarinet — Ernie's band sketch
- Bugle — "Dance Myself to Sleep", Episode 3829, Episode 3913, Episode 3961, Elmo's World: Sleep, Episode 4067, Episode 4713
- Piano — Episode 0900, "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain" pageant, Numéro un
- Saxophone — "Put Down the Duckie", Play with Me Sesame season 3, A Swingin' Sesame Street Celebration, Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration, Foley & Friends (Weather)
- Tambourine — "Gospel Alphabet"
- Trumpet — Episode 4810
- Electric guitar — promotional photo
Flo Bear[]
- Piano - Episode 2948
Fluffy[]
- Trumpet — Episode 1736, Episode 1814, Episode 2288, Episode 2906
- Grouchinet — Episode 2439
- Bugle — Episode 2950
Foley[]
- Electric guitar — Foley & Friends (Instruments)
Forgetful Jones[]
- Guitar — "I'll Always Remember I Love You", "Who Could Forget the Day That We Met", "Song of Forgetful Jones", "Dear Old Dad"
- Piano — Episode 1915, Bad Bart sketch
Forgetful Jones' Father[]
- Drums — Episode 2723
Freddy[]
Funella Furchester[]
- Accordion — The Furchester Hotel Episode 213
Gina[]
- Piano — Episode 3705
Gladys the Cow[]
- Piano — Episode 1915
- Harmonica — Episode 4031
Gordon[]
- Bass — Bert & Ernie Sing-Along
- Guitar — Episode 0927
- Flute — various
The Grand High Triangle Lover[]
- Piano — Episode 3756
Granny Fanny Nesselrode[]
Grover[]
- Banjo — "What Kind of Fool Am I?" (on The Ed Sullivan Show), Bert & Ernie Sing-Along
- Piccolo — Big Bird Meets the Orchestra
- Flute — "Four Winds," Monster Jazz Band
- Guitar — Grover and Mr. Johnson: Performing in the Park, "I Live in Two Different Worlds"
- Güiro — Global Grover: Puerto Rico
- Taiko drum — Global Grover: Hawaii
- Xylophone — "The Sesame Street Alphabet"
- Drums — Episode 4913
- Violin — Episode 5207, Grover's Own Alphabet, Big Bird Follows the Signs
Grundgetta[]
- Violin — Episode 1604
- Concertina — Episode 1604
- Saxophone — Episode 2126, Episode 3950 and Episode 5207
Herry Monster[]
- Bass — Episode 4913, Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration, The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo
- Viola - Big Bird Follows the Signs
Hoots the Owl[]
- Saxophone — at Birdland and almost every appearance
- Tuba — Episode 2255
- Trumpet — Big Bird Meets the Orchestra
Itzyuck Perlmud[]
- Violin — Episode 2627
Ji-Young[]
- Electric guitar — various, including Episode 5328
Larry and Phyllis[]
- Larry (Alan Arkin) - guitar
- Phyllis (Barbara Dana) - drums
Little Chrissy[]
- Piano — virtually every appearance
Little Jerry[]
- Guitar — Episode 2452
Little Murray Sparkles[]
- Piano — Episode 3929
Louie[]
- Saxophone — Episode 4809, Episode 4913
Luis[]
- Guitar — various
- Conga drums — Episode 0674
Mr. Johnson[]
- Piano — Episode 5011
Mr. Snuffleupagus[]
- Saxophone — Episode 0622
- Nose flute — Episode 1092, Episode 1849 and Episode 2126
- Harpmonica (harmonica/harp combo) — Episode 2098
- Double bass — Big Bird Meets the Orchestra
- Ukulele — Episode 4069
Mae[]
- Piano — Episode 5106
Mama Bear[]
Maria[]
- Piano — Episode 1915
Martians[]
- Xylophone - Episode 3055
Merry Monster[]
- Ukulele — Episode 3119
- Trombone — Big Bird Meets the Orchestra
Miles[]
- Electric guitar — Episode 4079
Miss Trump[]
- Piano — Episode 2126, Episode 2229, Episode 2348, Episode 2424
Murray Monster[]
- Piano — Murray Has a Little Lamb, "I Live in Two Different Worlds"
- Trumpet — Murray Has a Little Lamb
- Violin — Murray Has a Little Lamb
- Guitar — The Word of the Day segment
Old MacDonald[]
- Piano — Elmo's World: Farms
Old McDougal[]
- Bugle — "Google Bugle"
Oscar the Grouch[]
- Piano — Episode 0010, Episode 0070, Episode 1290, Episode 2126
- Ukulele — Episode 0037, Episode 1539 (described as a "yucch-a-lele")
- Piccolo - Episode 0070
- Tuba — Episode 0070, Episode 0375
- Trumpet — Episode 0070, Episode 0667, Episode 0704, Episode 0961, Episode 1250, "Oscar's Bill of Gripes", Episode 1536, Episode 2071, Episode 3463, Episode 5207
- Drum — Episode 0281, Me Want Cookie
- Horns — Episode 0537
- Bugle — Episode 0896, Episode 1301, Episode 2950
- Guitar — Episode 0927, Episode 1802
- Electric guitar — "Yakety Yak"
- Junkophone — Episode 1212
- Trombone — Episode 1264, Oscar's Grouchy Sounds
- Flute — Episode 1414
- Bagpipes — Episode 1426, Episode 2571
- Violin — Episode 0070, Episode 0507, Oscar-the-Grouch's Alphabet of Trash, Episode 1586, Episode 2579, Episode 2627, Episode 3152, Word of the Day segment
- Washtub bass (made from oil can and broom handle) — "Oscar's Junk Band"
- Bongos — Episode 2824
- Cymbals — Big Bird Meets the Orchestra, Episode 3950
- P.U.-gelhorn — Episode 4514
Osvaldo, el Gruñón[]
- Guitar — Episode 1557
- Maracas — Episode 3258
Ovejita[]
- Saxophone — Murray Has a Little Lamb
- Guitar — Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration, The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo
Papa Bear[]
- Banjo — Episode 3778
Prairie Dawn[]
- Piano — Sesame Street pageants, art show segments on Play with Me Sesame
- Cello - Big Bird Follows the Signs
- Violin — Big Bird Meets the Orchestra
Rosita[]
- Bassoon — Big Bird Meets the Orchestra
- Guitar — various
- Tambourine — "Gospel Alphabet"
- Trumpet — "Oops! Whoops! Wait, Ah-ha!"
- Maracas — Episode 5207
Roxie Marie[]
- French horn — Big Bird Meets the Orchestra
Ruby[]
- Tuba — Big Bird Meets the Orchestra
Savion[]
- Drums — Episode 3060
Sir Campbell McGrouch[]
- Bagpipes — Episode 1426
Slimey[]
- Cello — Episode 0264 (gave it up for not making enough noise)
- Tuba — Episode 0264 and Episode 3448
- Piano — Episode 1614, Episode 2020
- Sousaphone — Episode 1736 and Episode 2906
- Drums — Episode 2288
- Clarinet — sketch with Yosh Shmenge (John Candy)
- Triangle — Episode 2871
Stinky the Stinkweed[]
- Harmonica — Episode 3531
Sully[]
- Bass — Ernie's band sketch
- Piano — Episode 0911, Episode 1200, Episode 1371, Episode 1650, Episode 1736, Episode 1955, Episode 2010, Episode 2126, Episode 2443, Episode 2874, and Episode 2906
- Organ — Episode 1733
Susan[]
- Guitar - "Riding in My Car"
Telly Monster[]
- Bassoon — Sesame Street News Flash sketch
- Cymbals — "Between"
- Guitar — "Three Sides Now"
- Oboe — Episode 1821
- Triangle — various
- Tuba — various
- Saxophone - Episode 2555
- Viola — Big Bird Meets the Orchestra
- Tambourine — "Gospel Alphabet"
- Drums — Episode 3954
- Sousaphone — Episode 4259, "The Sesame Street Alphabet" and Episode 4727 (referred to as a tuba)
Two-Headed Monster[]
- Violin - Episode 2402
- Drums - "The Power of Yet"
Wolfgang the Seal[]
- Horns — Episode 2638, Episode 2972, Episode 3265
- Glockenspiel — Episode 4171
- Trumpet — "Antarctica!"
Zoe[]
- Piano — Episode 3451, Episode 3641, Episode 3910, Peter and the Wolf
- Trombone — Episode 3994, Episode 4016
- Tambourine — Episode 4031