reed organ
a musical keyboard instrument, as the harmonium or American organ, having small metal reeds through which air is forced to produce the sound.
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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.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building | George Laing MillerIngenuity 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 MartinHe 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.
Music Notation and Terminology | Karl W. GehrkensFrom 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
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
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