wind machine
| Stage device for creating sound effects. It is a barrel covered with silk, the friction of which on being turned produces a sound like a whistling wind. |
| It was used by Richard Strauss in Don Quixote, by Ravel in Daphnis et Chloé, by Vaughan Williams in Sinfonia antartica and by Tippett in his fourth symphony. |
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