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)
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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.
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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
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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
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“Double reed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/double%20reed. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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