FREE-REED INSTRUMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does free-reed instrument mean? 

• FREE-REED INSTRUMENT (noun)
  The noun FREE-REED INSTRUMENT has 1 sense:

1. a wind instrument with a free reed

  Familiarity information: FREE-REED INSTRUMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FREE-REED INSTRUMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A wind instrument with a free reed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("free-reed instrument" is a kind of...):

wind; wind instrument (a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by bellows or the human breath)

Meronyms (parts of "free-reed instrument"):

free-reed (a reed that does not fit closely over the aperture)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "free-reed instrument"):

accordion; squeeze box (a portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player)

American organ (a free-reed instrument in which air is drawn in through reeds by suction bellows)

concertina (free-reed instrument played like an accordion by pushing its ends together to force air through the reeds)

harmonica; harp; mouth harp; mouth organ (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)