Crossword-Solution: REEDINESS 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The beak has a hole at the back, covered with a thin skin, which vibrates and gives a slight reediness to the tone.

Their deep tones, Low in the stillness, and by that soft air Melted to reediness, bore out, like song, The language of high feelings, and I felt How excellent is woman when she gives To the fine pulses of her spirit way.

Her father was a member of the Italian Opera orchestra named Weichsel, and her mother, a pupil of John Christian Bach, was a leading vocalist at Vauxhall, whose voice was noted for a certain reediness of tone, caused, it is said, by her having practised with the oboe,--her husband's instrument.

Old Spodgram confined himself almost entirely to two notes, Miss Hubble insisted on her four bars of arrears, young Ditch extemporised an alto of surprising reediness, and Robert bellowed the last lines of the last verse just as the other choristers were loudly taking in breath preparatory to line three--but the whole thing was to him a foretaste of Paradise and the angels singing ever world without end.