Most Irish flute players tend to strive for a dark and reedy tone in comparison to classical flautists.

The chorus, some 25 voices strong, sang mostly a cappella, producing a pure, even, slightly reedy tone with a minimum of vibrato.

"No," he whispered in the reedy tones of his race.

In the quiet of the tent, his high-pitched voice held a reedy tone.

The bagpipe at Altarnun has parallel bore chanters which would give a quieter, reedy tone normally associated with indoor use.

Faye-Chinmoi said in reedy tones, "Because your village was not missed until radios went unanswered for a day and a half.

A new voice spoke in the reedy tones of an old man: "What's this?"

Finally, in Romus's reedy tones, the answer comes.

The reedy tones overrode him.

They conversed with one another in their reedy tones, that seemed to me impossible to imitate or define.