unmutedadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈmjuːtᵻd/, U.S. /ˌənˈmjudəd/ Not muted (in various senses).
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1886 W. S. Rockstro Gen. Hist. Mus. xxxi. 339 The ghastly horror of the Scene is more faithfully depicted, by the shivering tones of the unmuted Viole, beneath the strange harmony of the muted Violins.
1909 Times 11 May 8/3 In both operas the orchestration is the conventional mixture of harp and muted strings and very much unmuted brass.
1953 Financial Times 8 June 12/2 The invasion of Abyssinia, almost an epic of unmuted moral indignation.
1989 Church Hist. 58 65 The Franckean Synod became the unmuted and uninhibited voice of Lutheran abolitionism.
2007 Jrnl. Amer. Musicol. Soc. 60 326 The solo violin melody..is shadowed intermittently by a similarly unmuted solo cello.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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