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woodwind instrument
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woodwind instrument: see wind instrument wind instrument, in music, any instrument whose tone is produced by a vibrating column of air. In the pipe organ the column of air is set into vibration by mechanical means.
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woodwind instrument

Any musical wind instrument that produces sound by either directing a stream of air against the edge of a hole or by making a reed or a double reed vibrate (see reed instrument). In a brass instrument, by contrast, the airstream passes directly from the player's vibrating lips into the air column. The orchestral woodwinds include the flute, piccolo, clarinet, oboe, English horn, and bassoon. Other woodwinds include the saxophone, recorder, panpipe, shakuhachi, and shawm.


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He played woodwind instruments and worked in TV and radio in Chicago.
During live concerts, audience members watch the musicians substitute typical woodwind instruments, such as a clarinet, with a cucumber-and-pepper- recorder or carrot-horn.
Nearby Manara Square and the surrounding busy neighborhoods were taking their Sabbath rest, and unusual figures appeared in the area: Teenagers dressed in black and white clothes, carrying in their hands and on their backs musical instruments in their cases--violins, a cello, a trumpet, woodwind instruments.
 
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