woodwind

n.

1. A wind instrument in which sound is produced by the vibration of reeds in the mouthpiece, as a bassoon, clarinet, oboe, or saxophone, or by the passing of air across the mouthpiece, as a flute.
2. woodwinds
   1. The section of a band or orchestra composed of woodwind instruments.
   2. Woodwind instruments or their players considered as a group.

Term for wind instruments (aerophones) whose air-column is set in vibration either by the impinging of a stream of air on an edge or by a reed. They may be made of wood, ebonite, metal (including brass, in the case of the saxophone), ivory or other substances. Different notes are obtained by the covering or uncovering of finger-holes, to vary the length of the vibrating tube; instruments can also be overblown (i.e. made to vibrate in sections, producing a higher note), normally by an octave or an octave and a 5th, depending upon the physical properties of the tube.

The principal instruments sounded by the player's directing his breath at an edge are the flute type, both end-blown (such as the Recorder) and side-blown (such as the Flute itself). Instruments sounded by a double reed (two blades of cane bound together) include the Oboe and the Bassoon; among those sounded by a single reed beating against the mouthpiece of the instrument are the Clarinet and the Saxophone. Among earlier reed instruments is the Crumhorn, in which the reed does not come into contact with the player's lips; it falls within the category known as Wind-cap instruments. The main woodwind instruments used in the modern orchestra are the flute (in several sizes, including the small piccolo and the large alto flute), the oboe (and the larger english horn), the clarinet (made in several sizes, notably the alto basset-horn and the bass clarinet) and the bassoon (and the double-bassoon, pitched an octave lower): see illustrations.

Modern woodwind instruments and their 18th century precursors.

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A group of wind instruments with a softer tone than that of brass instruments. Woodwind players do not set the air in their instruments in motion by blowing through their closed lips against a cup-shaped mouthpiece, as players of brass instruments do. In woodwinds, the players insert the mouthpiece into their mouths and blow while pressing their lips against a single or double reed. Bassoons, clarinets, oboes, and saxophones are played in this way. In other woodwinds, the player blows across a hole (fifes, flutes, and piccolos) or into a whistlelike mouthpiece (recorders).

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - træblæserinstrument, træblæsere
adj. - træblæser-

Nederlands (Dutch)
houtblaasinstrument

Français (French)
n. - (Mus) bois (npl)
adj. - à bois, d'instrument à bois, des bois

Deutsch (German)
adj. - Holzblas-
n. - Holzblasinstrument

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - ξύλινος πνευστός
n. - (μουσ.) ξύλινο πνευστό (όργανο)

Italiano (Italian)
strumento a fiato

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - relativo a instrumento de sopro de madeira
n. - instrumento de sopro de madeira (m)

Русский (Russian)
деревянный духовой инструмент

Español (Spanish)
n. - instrumentos de viento de madera
adj. - de instrumentos de viento de madera

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - blåsinstruments-
n. - träblåsare

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
木管乐器

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 木管樂器

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 목관 악기류, 목관 악기부
adj. - 목관 악기의

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 木管楽器, 木管楽器部

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) شبيه باله نفخ (الاسم) الات النفخ أو الزمر الموسيقيه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮כלי נשיפה מעץ‬
adj. - ‮של כלי נשיפה מעץ (תזמורת)‬

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