reed instrument

noun

, Music.

1. a wind instrument with a single or double reed, as a saxophone or an oboe.

Example Sentences

From somewhere on the distant hillside came the sweet, shrill quaver of a reed instrument.

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To a reed-instrument player it was painful to see the oboist bite a bit off his reed when the tone was not to his liking!

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"Shalmyes" was probably a reed instrument of the character of an oboe.

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Its ancestor was probably the zamr-el-kebyr, an Oriental reed instrument.

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The vocal instrument is unlike any other musical instrument; it most nearly approaches a reed instrument.

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