noun
- small holes in a wind instrument that are covered by the fingers to control pitch
Usage: music
Examples
- The flute player covered the ventages with her fingertips to create different notes.
- Ancient wooden flutes had simple ventages drilled along their length.
- He practiced positioning his fingers over the recorder’s ventages.
- The craftsman carefully measured the spacing between each of the ventages.
- Blocking different combinations of ventages produces the musical scale.
- The piccolo’s tiny ventages require precise finger placement.