woodwind

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English

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Etymology

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From wood +‎ wind.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈwʊdwɪnd/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Hyphenation: wood‧wind

Noun

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woodwind (plural woodwinds)

  1. (music) Any (typically wooden) musical instrument that produces sound by the player blowing into it, through a reed, or across an opening. Woodwind instruments include the recorder, flute, piccolo, clarinet, oboe, cor anglais and bassoon.
    • 2009 February 28, Jon Pareles, “Turf-Sharing, When Indie Met Classical”, in The New York Times[1]:
      The seven-member Bell Orchestre was indeed a miniorchestra, with strings, brass, woodwinds and percussion along with occasional guitar and analog electronic noise.
    • 2009 September 14, Allan Kozinn, “Austrian Avant-Garde: Eerie Textures and Text”, in The New York Times[2]:
      The graceful, otherworldly sounds on which the first movement was built gave way to sharply articulated, dissonantly blaring woodwind and brass chords, and eventually to a mechanistic passage that combined rumbling low notes and a steady, searing high pitch.

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