reed organ


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

Origin of reed organ

1
An Americanism dating back to 1850–55

Words Nearby reed organ

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How to use reed organ in a sentence

  • 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.

    Edison, His Life and Inventions | Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin
  • He had already learned to play the "seraphine," the instrument which has been developed into the reed organ.

    Charles Carleton Coffin | William Elliot Griffis, D. D.
  • 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.

    Hour of Enchantment | Roy J. Snell

British Dictionary definitions for reed organ

reed organ

noun
  1. a wind instrument, such as the harmonium, accordion, or harmonica, in which the sound is produced by reeds, each reed producing one note only

  2. a type of pipe organ, such as the regal, in which all the pipes are fitted with reeds

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