reed instrument
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noun Music.
a wind instrument with a single or double reed, as a saxophone or an oboe.
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Nearby words
- reed,
- reed bird,
- reed bunting,
- reed canary grass,
- reed grass,
- reed mace,
- reed organ,
- reed pipe,
- reed stop,
- reed warbler
Also called reed.
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Examples from the Web for reed instrument
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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