wind instrument

Noun
  1. A musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breath (synset 104594218)
    is a type of: instrument, musical instrument - any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds
    subtypes:
    • brass, brass instrument - a wind instrument that consists of a brass tube (usually of variable length) that is blown by means of a cup-shaped or funnel-shaped mouthpiece
    • free-reed instrument - a wind instrument with a free reed
    • kazoo - a toy wind instrument that has a membrane that makes a sound when you hum into the mouthpiece
    • ocarina, sweet potato - egg-shaped terra cotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes
    • organ, pipe organ - wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard
    • organ pipe, pipe, pipework - the flues and stops on a pipe organ
    • pipe - a tubular wind instrument
    • post horn - wind instrument used by postilions of the 18th and 19th centuries
    • whistle - a small wind instrument that produces a whistling sound by blowing into it
    • wood, woodwind, woodwind instrument - any wind instrument other than the brass instruments
    has:
    • bell - the flared opening of a tubular device
    • embouchure, mouthpiece - the aperture of a wind instrument into which the player blows directly
    same as: wind

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