Reed Instrument

The _niau-kani_ -- singing splinter -- was a reed-instrument of a rude sort, made by holding a reed of thin bamboo against ❋ Nathaniel Bright Emerson (1877)

The sheet-iron thunder crashes; and the orchestra is engaged in another mortal combat with that revolutionary mugwump, the small reed-instrument, that persists in reforming the tune of the opera. ❋ Eugene Field (1872)

This small reed-instrument will not let go; it holds on to that ❋ Eugene Field (1872)

Having accomplished its incendiary and revolutionary purpose, the small reed-instrument subsides until it finds another chance to break out. ❋ Eugene Field (1872)

Wagner has a habit of suddenly bringing out a small reed-instrument with a big voice (we do not know its name), piped in the key of F sharp. ❋ Eugene Field (1872)

I looked if there was any sign of a bellows, thinking it must have been some primitive kind of reed-instrument, like what we call a seraphine or harmonium now-a-days. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)