Possible Clues:

• Gentileschi's 'Self-Portrait as a __ Player'
• Stringed instrument with a pear-shaped body
• When one instrument fails to start, get another
• Renaissance fair instrument
• Ren faire instrument
• Instrument originally played with a quill
• This was made to pluck hot stuff from mouth
• String instrument with a bent neck
• It becomes another instrument when "F" is added
• Instrument -- and another, not loud