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aerophones

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Categoryaerophones

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Sound devices that produce their sound by using the air itself as the primary vibrating agent.

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Broader: <sound devices by acoustical characteristics>
Narrower: flutes
<lip-vibrated aerophones>
reeds
organs
wind instruments
<aerophone components>
whirling aerophones
Related: <aerophone components>
<instrumentalists: wind instruments>