unkeyedadj.

1824 Dict. Musicians I. 34/2 These additional keys on Vanhall's flute..produced all the half notes as full and round as the tones natural to the instrument in its unkeyed state.

1881 Sacristy 3 225/1 Those instruments,—violins, trombones, unkeyed horns, trumpets, and serpents,—which play with the just, natural, or vocal intonation.

1955 Metrop. Mus. Art Bull. 14 74/1 Equally diverse are the members of the wind family, which, being unkeyed, are especially appropriate for producing flexible melodic lines and pitches.

2007 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 11 Aug. r9 Freedman's solo improvisation..chipped and scraped at the edge of pitches, often slithering away as if she were playing an unkeyed instrument like a trombone or violin.

1860 Southern Literary Messenger June 426 (caption) The bed unkey'd, tumbling down, Distorts his leg.

1881 Times 12 Apr. 11/3 If allowed to dry out, the blocks in the ordinary unkeyed wood pavements would shrink and work loose.

1903 San Antonio (Texas) Daily Light 13 Oct. 3/4 A store uptown keyed one of its one-page ads and traced sales to the extent of over $7000, to say nothing of the sales made to the same buyers of unkeyed goods.

1973 R. L. Robinson Compl. Course Professional Locksmithing xxxix. 351/2 It is advisable for the locksmith who plans to do this work to carry all of the necessary components for a key system as stock items in his shop, preferably in the form of unkeyed cylinders.

2002 M. E. McDonald Systematic Assessment Learning Outcomes viii. 136 Provide your colleagues with an unkeyed test copy to edit and proofread.