single-reed instrument

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Noun

1.single-reed instrument - a beating-reed instrument with a single reed (as a clarinet or saxophone)single-reed woodwindbeating-reed instrument, reed instrument, reed - a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reedclarinet - a single-reed instrument with a straight tubepibgorn, stockhorn, hornpipe - an ancient (now obsolete) single-reed woodwind; usually made of bonesaxophone, sax - a single-reed woodwind with a conical bore