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| bassoon |
a large low-pitched woodwind instrument consisting of a long doubled wooden tube fitted with a slender curved metal tube that terminates in a double-reed mouthpiece. |
| clarinet |
a woodwind instrument with a single-reed mouthpiece attached to a long, usu. wooden tube with finger holes and keys along its length. |
| embouchure |
the mouthpiece of a wind instrument. [2/4 definitions] |
| fipple flute |
a recorder or other vertical flute that has a slitted wedgelike plug, or fipple, in the mouthpiece. |
| flute |
a high-pitched musical instrument of the woodwind family, consisting of a long slender tube of wood or metal with finger holes or keys along it, that is played by blowing into a mouthpiece at one end or across a hole near one end. [1/8 definitions] |
| French horn |
a brass wind instrument that consists of a long coiled tube with a funnel-shaped mouthpiece, three valves, and a flaring bell at the end. |
| headset |
one or two earphones and sometimes also a mouthpiece, held to the head by a flexible band. |
| hornpipe |
a musical wind instrument whose mouthpiece and bell are usu. made of ox horn. [1/3 definitions] |
| nipple |
something resembling this projection, such as a rubber mouthpiece for a nursing bottle, or a pacifier. [1/3 definitions] |
| ocarina |
a small wind instrument that has a small mouthpiece and finger holes, is shaped somewhat like an elongated potato, and produces soft, hollow sounds. |
| recorder |
any of a family of flutelike wind instruments with eight holes and a whistlelike mouthpiece. [1/3 definitions] |
| reed |
a small, flexible strip made of cane or metal that is set into the mouthpiece of a musical instrument, and through which the player blows to produce a sound vibration. [1/3 definitions] |
| saxophone |
any of several wind instruments that have a conical metal body, finger keys, and a mouthpiece with a single reed; alto, tenor, baritone, soprano, or bass saxophone. |
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