end-blown

adjective

: played or sounded by blowing into the end : having a mouthpiece on the end

an end-blown flute

The simplest end-blown instrument is a tube, open at one end and closed at the other, for example, a segment of bamboo or reed closed at the bottom by the natural septum.

—Jeremy Montagu, Origins and Development of Musical Instruments, 2007

compare side-blown

Word History

First Known Use

1902, in the meaning defined above

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