Blasinstrument

Definitions of Blasinstrument
  1. noun
    a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath
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    Okarina
    egg-shaped terra cotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes
    Orgel
    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
    Akkordeon
    a portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player
    Dudelsack
    a tubular wind instrument; the player blows air into a bag and squeezes it out through the drone
    Tuba
    the lowest brass wind instrument
    Trompete
    a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves
    Blockflöte
    a tubular wind instrument with 8 finger holes and a fipple mouthpiece
    Querflöte
    a high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown
    Horn
    a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves
    Mundharmonika
    a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole
    Harmonium
    a free-reed instrument in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows
    Panflöte
    a primitive wind instrument consisting of several parallel pipes bound together
    Posaune
    a brass instrument consisting of a long tube whose length can be varied by a U-shaped slide
    type of:
    Instrument, Musikinstrument
    any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds
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