quena

[key-nuh]

noun

1. a recorderlike bamboo flute having a notched mouthpiece, used in Andean music.

Example Sentences

Liselle Pires and Quena Batres met during a summer backpacking trip on Mount St. Helens with a mutual friend.

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These include the melodic whistle of the quena, a wind instrument, and the moaning harps and violins used in the country’s most emblematic musical performance, the scissor dance.

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Quena Crain, elementary group teacher, asked the group before they met Belle and Bright.

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Several boys took out their wooden quena quena flutes and began to play.

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“The level of hyperbole by otherwise very smart people on these bills is just amazing,” said Quena D. Gonzalez, director of state and local affairs for the Family Research Council, which supports the RFRA.

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