Objects in a FOR loop

Question

Can anyone see why this loop won't work?:
for (int i = 0; i < name.length; i++)
System.out.println(instrument[ i ].getName());
- Where "name" is an array with 12 elements,
- Where "instrument" is an object (there are 12 objects each named instrument1, instrument2, instrument3 etc).
- Each instrument object has a "getName" method which returns it's name attribute.
- And obviously there's not really any spaces in the [ i ] - i've had to do that to prevent going into italics on this board!
I was hoping this would print out 12 lines - each line being the "name" of each instrument, but instead, on compilation i get the following error:
error75: variable instrument not found in class
But of course, instrument isn't a varbiable, it's an object!
Any help would really really be appreciated :)

Answer 1

thanks for replying so swiftly. Basically, i'm really really new to this so i think the best thing for me to do would be to post to whole program so far asi don't know if i've declared instrument wrongly somewhere else. In the below code i've got 2 classes within the same program:
public class instrumentArraySearch03
     public static void main(String[] args)
    String searchCriteria;   // variables
    int searchChoice;
       String againYesNo;
    String [] name = new String[13];   // create name array
    String [] type = new String[13];   // create type array
    String [] price = new String[13];   // create price array
    name[0] = "fender";
    name[1] = "gibson";
    name[2] = "squire";
    name[3] = "casio";
    name[4] = "korg";
    name[5] = "shure";
    name[6] = "akg";
    name[7] = "mcscott";
    name[8] = "pearl";
    name[9] = "ludwig";
    name[10] = "classical co.";
    name[11] = "sax co.";
    name[12] = "violin co.";
    type[0] = "electric guitar";
    type[1] = "acoustic guitar";
    type[2] = "electric bass";
    type[3] = "acosutic bass";
    type[4] = "banjo";
    type[5] = "violin";
    type[6] = "saxophone";
    type[7] = "clarinet";
    type[8] = "flute";
    type[9] = "bagpipes";
    type[10] = "keyboard";
    type[11] = "drumkit";
    type[12] = "microphone";
    price[0] = "49";
    price[1] = "59";
    price[2] = "99";
    price[3] = "149";
    price[4] = "199";
    price[5] = "249";
    price[6] = "300";
    price[7] = "350";
    price[8] = "399";
    price[9] = "450";
    price[10] = "599";
    price[11] = "799";
    price[12] = "999";
     // testing out whether objects work  - see class at bottom of page
    instrument instrument1 = new instrument(name[0], type[2], price[3]);
    instrument instrument2 = new instrument(name[11], type[2], price[0]);
    instrument instrument3 = new instrument(name[2], type[2], price[11]);
    instrument instrument4 = new instrument(name[0], type[2], price[7]);
    instrument instrument5 = new instrument(name[4], type[2], price[8]);
    instrument instrument6 = new instrument(name[8], type[2], price[6]);
    instrument instrument7 = new instrument(name[7], type[1], price[2]);
    instrument instrument8 = new instrument(name[1], type[2], price[9]);
    instrument instrument9 = new instrument(name[5], type[2], price[10]);
    instrument instrument10 = new instrument(name[6], type[2], price[5]);
    instrument instrument11 = new instrument(name[10], type[2], price[4]);
    instrument instrument12 = new instrument(name[3], type[2], price[1]);
          for (int i = 0; i < name.length; i++)
      System.out.println("instrument name is " + instrument.getName());
} // ends main method
} // ends class
class instrument
private String name;
private String type;
private String price;
public instrument(String nameIn, String typeIn, String priceIn) // constructor
name = nameIn;
type = typeIn;
price = priceIn;
public String getName()
return name;
public String getType()
return type;
public String getPrice()
return price;