woodwind
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈwʊdwɪnd/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Hyphenation: wood‧wind
Noun
[edit]woodwind (plural woodwinds)
- (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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[edit]musical instrument
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