Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Music) a reed that does not fit closely over the aperture.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a reed that does not fit closely over the aperture
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Examples
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The last is the original of all our free-reed musical instruments.
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On one Saturday, the band Bong Lan combined saxophone, drums and keyboard with khene (a free-reed Thai mouth organ) and seung (a four-stringed guitar) to produce Thai-Western jazz fusion.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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On one Saturday, the band Bong Lan combined saxophone, drums and keyboard with khene (a free-reed Thai mouth organ) and seung (a four-stringed guitar) to produce Thai-Western jazz fusion.
NYT > Travel By ROBYN ECKHARDT 2010
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A portable free-reed musical instrument. advisory adj.
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May 23 ... or maybe some other day entirely) and, anyway, the accordion was actually invented cheng, a distant ancestor of the accordion, is the oldest known free-reed instrument, dating back a couple thousand years or so.
The Spark of Yahoo! 2010
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May 23 ... or maybe some other day entirely) and, anyway, the accordion was actually invented cheng, a distant ancestor of the accordion, is the oldest known free-reed instrument, dating back a couple thousand years or so.
The Spark of Yahoo! 2010
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May 23 ... or maybe some other day entirely) and, anyway, the accordion was actually invented cheng, a distant ancestor of the accordion, is the oldest known free-reed instrument, dating back a couple thousand years or so.
The Spark of Yahoo! 2010
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