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An illustration shows Gafori sitting at his organ and the musicians with their wind-instruments at the end of the lofty hall.

From The Great Book-Collectors by Elton, Charles Isaac

Music of wind-instruments is heard far away behind the new house.

From The Master Builder by Gosse, Edmund

It would be interesting to know what, if any, of the works of Beethoven for wind-instruments belong to this period of his life.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 07, May, 1858 by Various

From an early moment, the strains of flageolets and pipes, of song and of wind-instruments faintly fell on his ear.

From Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by Joly, H. Bencraft

Though so remote, the hum of the moving throng, and the higher strains of the wind-instruments, came, from time to time, to the ears of its inmates, mellowed and thrilling by distance.

From The Bravo by Cooper, James Fenimore