Marc Lowenstein was an alert leader of the Los Angeles-based Ensemble Green, configured on Thursday with strings, percussion, and the double-reed woodwinds. From Wordnik.com. [Rodney Punt: The Mortal Thoughts of Lady Macbeth: A Chamber Opera of Horrors at Fais Do-Do] Reference
Duck calls come in single - and double-reed models; most beginners find double reeds require less effort to blow and are easier to get a "ducky" sound from. From Wordnik.com. [Get Quacking] Reference
At first hearing, the similarities between the contraforte and the contrabassoon are evident: both instruments hang out in the dark, lowest register of the double-reed universe. From Wordnik.com. [Audio: The contrabassoon vs. contraforte] Reference
We must also place among double-reed instruments the various bagpipes, cornemuses, and musettes, which are shawm or oboe instruments with reservoirs of air, and furnished with drones inclosing single reeds. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement No. 819, September 12, 1891] Reference
To suggest the sparkling Swiss meadows in the calm following the storm, Rossini evokes both the Italian Baroque tradition of shepherd songs in 3/8 time and the traditional Swiss herdsman's melody known as the "Ranz des Vaches," with a lovely melody for the rustic, double-reed lyricism of the English horn in alternation with the flute. From Wordnik.com. [The Splendid Start to a Farewell to Opera] Reference
The original form of the reed instruments was of the double-reed variety. From Wordnik.com. [Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University] Reference
The oboe is a representative type of the higher pitched double-reed instruments. From Wordnik.com. [Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University] Reference
I'll see your lightsabRE and raise you a double-reed slide music stand and a Flute-o-phone. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Campus] Reference
Charnley described the oboe as a double-reed instrument in the woodwind family, descended from the simpler recorder. From Wordnik.com. [The MetroWest Daily News Homepage RSS] Reference
John Schaefer of WNYC hosts the broadcast, welcoming Brazilian singer Renato Braz, gospel singer Theresa Thomason, double-reed master Paul McCandless and more. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
WNYC's John Schaefer hosts the broadcast, welcoming guests such as Brazilian singer Renato Braz, gospel singer Theresa Thomason and double-reed master Paul McCandless. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
Lateef mostly sticks to tenor (playing only flute on one song and making one appearance on the double-reed arghul) and is featured with his Detroit All-Stars, a quintet also including the up-and-coming trombonist Curtis Fuller, pianist Hugh Lawson, bassist Ernie Farrow and drummer Louis Hayes. From Wordnik.com. [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference
You know what they say about double-reed players. ". From Wordnik.com. [Beyond World's End]
(double-reed oboe like instrument), the baglama (long-necked lute), percussion, and dozens more instruments. From Wordnik.com. [Netvouz - new bookmarks] Reference
According to the event’s organizaers, Tekbilek is “a master of traditional Anatolian instruments like the ney (bamboo flute), the zurna (double-reed oboe) and the baglama (lute).”. From Wordnik.com. [Buzzine » Major Display of Asia Minor] Reference
OK, now I see 'em ... munchkins with double-reed flutes and a teeny little munchkin in goat-skins, runnin 'around whippin' the ladies ... also wore it for two days in a row. the next day someone told me they know those guys and that his good friend was in the band but left the band. i listened to their myspace. were they on the show already? or are they going to be on some day soon?. From Wordnik.com. [WFMU's recent playlists] Reference
(chanter) or the melody-pipe, having according to the variety of the bag-pipe a conical or a cylindrical bore, lateral holes, and in some cases keys and a bell; the "chaunter" is invariably made to speak by means of a double-reed; (3) the "drones," jointed pipes with cylindrical bore, generally terminating in a bell, but having no lateral holes and being capable, therefore, of producing but one fixed note. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
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