double reed

noun

: two reeds bound together with a slight separation between them so that air passing through them causes them to beat against one another and that are used as a sound-producing device in certain woodwind instruments (such as members of the oboe family)

Examples of double reed in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

While this is not a jazz album, the warm tone and flowing sound of Van Handel's double reed instrument could make this recording appealing to jazz listeners as well as classical ones. —Jim Higgins, Journal Sentinel, 25 Jan. 2023

This full range double reed design has good highs and lows. —M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 23 Jan. 2023

For the Vietnamese character Tiên Luu (Y. Lan), Blanchard wrote a mournful melody for duduk, an Armenian double reed woodwind, performed by Pedro Eustache. —Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2021

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1876, in the meaning defined above