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double-reed

[ duhb-uhl-reed ]

adjective

, Music.
  1. of or relating to wind instruments producing sounds through two reeds fastened and beating together, as the oboe.


double-reed

adjective

  1. relating to or denoting a wind instrument in which the sounds are produced by air passing over two reeds that vibrate against each other
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of double-reed1

First recorded in 1875–80
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Example Sentences

If the oboe was a somewhat unusual selection for a young musician, Mr. Stacy soon made the even more unconventional choice to specialize in the English horn, a confusingly named instrument that is not in fact a horn but rather a double-reed instrument, an alto member of the oboe family.

A blunt four-on-the-floor thump might just be the least aggressive part of “Right to Riot” from the British Armenian musician Hagop Tchaparian, which also brandishes traditional sounds — six-beat drumming and the snarl of the double-reed zurna — and zapping, woofer-rattling electronics as it builds.

The first sounds that leap out of “Right to Riot” are traditional: an aggressive six-beat drum pattern and the nasal, biting snarl of what Armenians call the zurna, a double-reed instrument used under various names across the Balkans, the Middle East, northern Africa and western Asia.

Both began lessons on the saxophone, then switched to more difficult double-reed instruments.

In Mr. Focht’s apartment, his double-reed woodwind instrument transports him somewhere else.

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