| Noun | 1. | woodwind instrument - any wind instrument other than the brass instrumentsbeating-reed instrument, reed instrument, reed - a musical instrument that sounds by means of a vibrating reed finger hole - one of a series of holes in a woodwind instrument; pitch changes when a finger covers it flute, transverse flute - a high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown thumbhole - the hole in a woodwind that is closed and opened with the thumb wind instrument, wind - a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath |