reed organ

noun

a musical keyboard instrument, as the harmonium or American organ, having small metal reeds through which air is forced to produce the sound.

reed organ

a wind instrument, such as the harmonium, accordion, or harmonica, in which the sound is produced by reeds, each reed producing one note only
a type of pipe organ, such as the regal, in which all the pipes are fitted with reeds

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55

In the French Mustel reed organ the first touch is operated by depressing the keys about a sixteenth part of an inch.

Ingenuity has been shown also in the invention of "talking-machines," like Faber's, based on the reed organ pipe.

He had already learned to play the "seraphine," the instrument which has been developed into the reed organ.

There are two familiar types of organ in use at the present time, the reed organ, the pipe-organ.

From the far corner where the darkness reigned came the strange, church-like notes of a reed organ.

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