end-blown

[ end-blohn ]

adjective

1. (of a flute) having a mouthpiece at the end of the tube so that the player blows into the instrument. Compare transverse ( def 2 ).

end-blown

adjective

1. music (of a recorder) held downwards and blown through one end

Example Sentences

The ney, a popular Persian, Turkish and Arabic end-blown flute and one of the world’s oldest instruments, is made from carefully treated and prepared Arundo donax.

From Los Angeles Times

On his long walks around Tokyo when he couldn’t sleep, he would pass an old man playing the shakuhachi, an end-blown bamboo flute that dates to seventh-century Japan.

From New York Times

McGhee, the principal flutist for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, shared the stage with Carol Lynn Ward-Bamford, the curator of the collection, for an engaging discussion that featured a 16th-century end-blown flute, a yard-long walking-stick flute, an odd but surprisingly sonorous plexiglass flute and many others — including historic instruments made by Theobald Boehm, Johann Joachim Quantz and Louis Lot that transformed the flute from a breathy wooden tube to the precise, high-powered instrument it is today.

From Washington Post

He started on a simple, end-blown flute, the tanso, and also plays the piercing double reed called the taepyeongso, which calls to mind Coltrane even more directly.

From Seattle Times