idioglot
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Having a vibrating reed that is an integral part of the instrument.
noun
An idioglot instrument.
Example Sentences
- "Further north, in rural Lithuania, a folk clarinet has a cylindrical tube closed at the top, with idioglot reed taken in the player's mouth for its entire length."
- "Pipes with idioglot reeds (not separate pieces of cane, but cut in the tube itself) have been identified from later civilisations, for example the Greek aulos and the Sardinian launeddas."
- "Alongside the clarinet of today, idioglot instruments are still played in many European countries, along the Baltic and in the Balkans, as well as Asia, Africa and South America."
- "Masa (tongs) -an idioglot with a sound-rhythmical effect and with a secondary musical function; made of iron."
- "These simple instruments (idioglots) still found in Syria, Crete, Turkmenistan amongst others are also used by children who have a good supply of reeds nearby."
- "The single reed iterations were often idioglots because of the simple structural design required to produce such a sound generator."