reed instrument
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Though piano, synthesizer and what seems to be a reed instrument are audible, it comes across as something created spontaneously with toys and noise-making devices discovered in a room.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
The group is trying to reintroduce to the box-shaped reed instrument into schools and shatter stereotypes about it through a program called Bellows Open: The Great Squeeze Project.
From Washington Times ● May 15, 2017
They sat with their backs to each other, Son Seng hitting a large gong and his grandsons playing a reed instrument called a sralai and a xylophone-like set of gongs known as a kong peat.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 20, 2016
Other highlights include Huang Ruo’s “Color Yellow” for sheng, an ancient Chinese reed instrument.
From New York Times ● May 15, 2015
The proboscis of the death’s-head hawk moth is used as a kind of reed instrument, blown through to make high-pitched, reedy notes.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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