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ˈwind-ˌinstrument
(Often as two words.)
1. A musical instrument played by means of ‘wind’ (wind n.1 12), supplied either by the breath of the player or by bellows: most commonly applied to portable instruments of this kind, such as those used in an orchestra.
Strictly, one whose sounds are produced by vibration of air in a pipe or tube (as the flute, trumpet, etc.) or in a number of pipes (as the organ); but usually also including those sounding by vibration of reeds (as the clarinet, harmonium, and concertina).
1582N. Lichefield tr. Castanheda's Conq. E. Ind. i. lxxvi. 155 He had also with him certeine wind instruments. 1628Ford Lover's Mel. i. ii, Cucul. Was thy father a Piper, saist thou? Grill. A sounder of some such wind-instrument forsooth. 1777Thicknesse Journ. France (1789) II. 202 During the supper, a good band of music played; but it was all wind instruments. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. ii, Two or three violins and a wind instrument from the Opera band. 1880F. Taylor in Grove Dict. Mus. II. 5/2 The Harmonium..although played by wind, is not strictly a wind⁓instrument.
Comb.1776Hawkins Hist. Mus. V. iv. vii. 364 The younger Stanesby, the wind-instrument-maker.
b. fig. or allusively.
1604Shakes. Oth. iii. i. 10. 1634 S. R. Noble Soldier iv. i. F 3, Bal. What Instrument playd she upon? Cor. A wind instrument, she did nothing but sigh.
†2. A machine or contrivance driven by the wind, as a windmill. Obs. rare.
1601Holland Pliny vii. xxxvii. I. 175 Ctesibius also was much accounted of for devising wind-instruments: and by the meanes of certaine engines to draw and send water to any place.
Hence ˌwind-instruˈmental a.; ˌwind-instruˈmentalist.
1869J. Ella Mus. Sk. I. 344, I know of no other example of wind-instrumentalists acquiring an independance by orchestral employment in London. 1894J. A. Kappey (title) Military Music. A history of wind-instrumental bands. |