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FREE-REED INSTRUMENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does free-reed instrument mean?
• FREE-REED INSTRUMENT (noun)
The noun FREE-REED INSTRUMENT has 1 sense:
1. a wind instrument with a free reed
Familiarity information: FREE-REED INSTRUMENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A wind instrument with a free reed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("free-reed instrument" is a kind of...):
wind; wind instrument (a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breath)
Meronyms (parts of "free-reed instrument"):
free-reed (a reed that does not fit closely over the aperture)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "free-reed instrument"):
accordion; squeeze box (a portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player)
American organ (a free-reed instrument in which air is drawn in through reeds by suction bellows)
concertina (free-reed instrument played like an accordion by pushing its ends together to force air through the reeds)
harmonica; harp; mouth harp; mouth organ (a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole)
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