wind instrument
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of wind instrument
First recorded in 1575–85
Example Sentences
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To Mr. Margouleff, “it was more akin to a wind instrument in that you put your total emotive energy into playing one note, or in our case one event, at a time.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
Rice, who has studied cat purring himself, criticized the use of dead over living cats, saying this experiment is “akin to removing the mouthpiece from a wind instrument and analyzing its sounds in isolation.”
From Salon ● Nov. 3, 2023
Just looking at excised larynges, he says, is “akin to removing the mouthpiece from a wind instrument and analyzing its sounds in isolation.”
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 3, 2023
His theme for Paul — performed on duduk, an ancient wind instrument from Armenia — searches and wanders, never finding resolution.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2022
The standing waves in a wind instrument are a little different from a vibrating string.
From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones
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