woodwind

Noun

woodwind (plural woodwinds)

1. Any (typically wooden) musical instrument that produces sound by the player blowing into it, through a reed, or across an opening. Woodwind instruments include the recorder, flute, piccolo, clarinet, oboe, cor anglais and bassoon.
   • The seven-member Bell Orchestre was indeed a miniorchestra, with strings, brass, woodwinds and percussion along with occasional guitar and analog electronic noise.2009 February 28, Jon Pareles, “Turf-Sharing, When Indie Met Classical”, in The New York Times
   • The graceful, otherworldly sounds on which the first movement was built gave way to sharply articulated, dissonantly blaring woodwind and brass chords, and eventually to a mechanistic passage that combined rumbling low notes and a steady, searing high pitch.2009 September 14, Allan Kozinn, “Austrian Avant-Garde: Eerie Textures and Text”, in The New York Times