reed instrument
Americannoun
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The Veracruz-born vocalist Fuensanta sings no words on “Spectrum,” the album’s rangy centerpiece track; she joins the horns, sounding almost like another reed instrument.
From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2023
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
When the heavy-set Don Iñigo arrives on the scene, the sarrusophone, a large and deep metallic reed instrument, has some hilariously flatulent solos.
From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2016
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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