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wind instrument

[ wind ]

noun

  1. a musical instrument sounded by the breath or other air current, as the trumpet, trombone, clarinet, or flute.


wind instrument

/ ɪԻ /

noun

  1. any musical instrument sounded by the breath, such as the woodwinds and brass instruments of an orchestra
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of wind instrument1

First recorded in 1575–85
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Imagine mastodon-like creatures whose noses are wind instruments that inflate the structures and emit sound.

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On 7 May, Lord Weir said Mrs Long was "hard to listen to", and on 23 July he wrote: "Naomi talking about wind instruments - oh the irony!"

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“Lips” does arrive at an unusually potent moment for avant-garde wind instruments.

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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.”

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Just looking at excised larynges, he says, is “akin to removing the mouthpiece from a wind instrument and analyzing its sounds in isolation.”

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