Historical clue formulations

• Some winds — 2026-05-01
• Orchestra section toward the middle of the pit — 2025-09-07
• Slender instruments — 2025-02-03
• Woodwinds that are usually black — 2025-01-16
• Smaller cousins of English horns — 2024-10-22
• Orchestra woodwinds — 2024-10-01
• High winds? — 2024-03-08
• Orchestral group pitched to C — 2023-11-22
• Small section of a pit — 2022-01-09
• Second staff in many an orchestral score — 2021-04-08
• High winds — 2020-01-10
• They're found among the reeds — 2019-03-02
• Orchestra section behind the violas — 2018-07-22
• Orchestra tuners — 2018-01-18
• High winds? — 2017-08-29
• Winds down in a pit? — 2017-05-02
• Some woodwinds — 2017-03-27
• Slender woodwinds — 2017-03-14
• Black winds — 2016-06-16
• Reed section — 2016-05-11
• They're blown in the winds — 2016-04-10
• Woods in a pit — 2015-08-08
• Foursome in Mahler's "Symphony of a Thousand" — 2015-06-13
• Cousins of clarinets — 2015-02-15
• Instruments with flared bells — 2014-11-16
• Small section of an orchestra — 2014-11-12
• Wind instruments — 2014-09-02
• Wind instruments — 2013-12-17
• Orchestra woodwinds — 2013-07-22
• Orchestra winds — 2013-04-29
• Heckelphone cousins — 2013-03-13
• Pair in an average-sized orchestra — 2013-03-09
• High-pitched double-reeds — 2011-11-08
• Ducks, in "Peter and the Wolf" productions — 2010-12-23
• Slender woodwinds — 2009-03-31
• They're blown in the winds — 2007-08-12
• English horn relatives — 2007-05-29
• Duo in a typical symphony — 2007-05-20
• Tubular instruments — 2007-05-09
• Cousins of bassoons — 2007-05-04
• Orchestra-tuning instruments — 2006-08-29
• Orchestra group — 2006-07-20
• Certain winds — 2006-04-25
• Instruments used in orchestra tuning — 2005-12-06
• Slender woodwinds — 2005-08-15
• Orchestra section — 2005-05-05
• Woodwinds — 2005-04-04
• Some reeds — 2004-11-12
• Bassoon's smaller cousins — 2004-10-11
• Wind instruments — 2003-11-20