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SINGLE-REED INSTRUMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does single-reed instrument mean? 

SINGLE-REED INSTRUMENT (noun)
  The noun SINGLE-REED INSTRUMENT has 1 sense:

1. a beating-reed instrument with a single reed (as a clarinet or saxophone)play

  Familiarity information: SINGLE-REED INSTRUMENT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SINGLE-REED INSTRUMENT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A beating-reed instrument with a single reed (as a clarinet or saxophone)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

single-reed instrument; single-reed woodwind

Hypernyms ("single-reed instrument" is a kind of...):

beating-reed instrument; reed; reed instrument (a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "single-reed instrument"):

clarinet (a single-reed instrument with a straight tube)

hornpipe; pibgorn; stockhorn (an ancient (now obsolete) single-reed woodwind; usually made of bone)

sax; saxophone (a single-reed woodwind with a conical bore)


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