wind instrument - a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breathbagpipe, pipes - a wind instrument; the player blows air into a bag and squeezes it out through pipes bell - the flared opening of a tubular device brass - a wind instrument that consists of a brass tube (usually of variable length) blown by means of a cup-shaped or funnel-shaped mouthpiece kazoo - a toy wind instrument that has a membrane that makes a sound when you hum into the mouthpiece ocarina, sweet potato - egg-shaped terra-cotta wind instrument with a mouthpiece and finger holes pipe organ, organ - wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard post horn - wind instrument used by postilions of the 18th and 19th centuries |