Definition of Free-reed instrument

1. Noun. A wind instrument with a free reed.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Free-reed Instrument

free-form
free-hand knife
free-hearted
free-heel skiing
free-lance
free-liver
free-livers
free-living
free-living organism
free-market
free-marketeer
free-marketeers
free-milling
free-range
free-reed
free-reed instrument (current term)
free-soil
free-speech
free-spoken
free-standing
free-stone
free-swimming
free-tailed bat
free-thinking
free-throw lane
free-throw line
free-throw lines
free-to-air
free-to-play
free-trade area

Literary usage of Free-reed instrument

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Catalogue of the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments by Frederick Stearns, Albert Augustus Stanley (1921)
"A primitive free-reed instrument Borneo It consists of an air reservoir of wood, on the top of which are arranged six tubes of cane, each of which contains ..."

2. English Music 1604 to 1904: Being the Lectures Given at the Music Loan by Worshipful Company of Musicians (1906)
"Our American cousins, ever ready to seize on and exploit a new notion, have brought their inventive genius to bear on the popular free-reed instrument: they ..."

3. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889) by Eminent Writers by John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1879)
"A small and simple 'free reed' instrument, invented about 1829 by Messrs. Wheatstone. It consisted of a few free reeds, which were fixed into a metal plate ..."

4. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1880) by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1880)
"A small and simple 'free reed' instrument, invented about 1829 by Messrs. Wheatstone. It consisted of a few free reeds, which were fixed into a metal plate ..."

5. A Dictionary of Music and Musicians (A.D. 1450-1889): ...edited by Sir by George Grove, John Alexander Fuller-Maitland (1890)
"A email and simple 'free reed' instrument, invented about 1829 by Messrs. Wheatstone. It consisted of a few free reeds, which were fixed into a metal plate ..."

6. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1912)
"Portable free reed instrument of hexagonal form, invented by Sir Charles Wheatstone, 1829, consisting of a bellows with keyboard at either extremity ..."

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