reed instrument

American  

noun

Music.

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

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Example Sentences

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

Sanchez was known for his musical talents as a boy, playing a dulzania, a Spanish double reed instrument related to the oboe, Guinness said.

From Reuters • Sep. 15, 2013

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