单词 | mouth pipe |
释义 | mouth pipen. Music. 1. Any of various simple wind instruments consisting of a pipe into which the player blows. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > pipe > [noun] pipeOE whewc1475 chalumeau1713 mouth pipe1728 tube1820 toodle-pipe1890 1728 R. North in J. Wilson Roger North on Music (1959) 233 A defect in the use of our mouth-pipes, both flute and reedalls, which I should have hinted before. 1851 W. Smith & C. Anthon School Dict. Greek & Roman Antiquities 324/1 The most remarkable were the bagpipe,..and the..πλαγíαυλοσ, which, as its name implies, had a mouth-pipe inserted into it at right angles. 1898 E. N. Westcott David Harum 188 Fellers that played the 'cordion an' mouth-pipes an' drum an' cymbals all to once. 1957 S. Plath Coll. Poems (1981) 80 So the snakecharmer begins a snaky sphere With moon-eye, mouth-pipe. 1999 Seattle Times (Nexis) 2 May k12 Ancient [Chinese] instruments such as..the sheng (a mouth pipe) and the pipa (a four-stringed lute). 2. In organ-building: an organ pipe with a mouth (see mouth n. 14b); a flue pipe. Now rare or disused. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > pipe > other pipes recorder1613 reed pipe1728 labial pipe1837 mouth pipe1842 trumpet-pipe1844 lip-pipe1855 1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 856/1 Organ pipes are of two sorts, mouth pipes and reed pipes, of each..there are several species. 1865 Chambers's Encycl. VII. 111/2 (Organ) A mouth-pipe may be stopped at the upper end by a plug called a tompion, the effect of which is to lower the pitch an octave. 1906 N.E.D. at Pipe sb.1 Pipe-stop, an organ-stop composed of mouth-pipes. 3. The portion of tubing into which the mouthpiece in a brass instrument is inserted. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > brass instruments > [noun] > parts of > other parts crook1842 shank1885 tuning-slide1885 mouth pipe1973 1973 Sci. Amer. July 24/2 All brass instruments consist of a mouthpiece (which has a cup and a tapered back bore), a mouthpipe (which also has a carefully controlled taper), a main bore (which is either cylindrical or conical) and a flaring bell. 2000 Music Trades (Nexis) 1 Oct. 141 The Holton Millennium French horn features a dual bore and redesigned 4th branch and mouthpipe tapers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1728 |
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