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wind chest

/ wɪnd /

noun

  1. a box in an organ in which air from the bellows is stored under pressure before being supplied to the pipes or reeds


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The pipes are of various shapes and sizes and are arranged in ranks or rows upon the wind-chest.

This wind-chest with the slider stop control is about all that is left to us of the old form of key action.

The bellows, being expanded by the wind, pulls down the pallet in the wind-chest; the bellows does all the hard work.

The boy at the bellows has already pumped the wind-chest full, and there is a wheezing sound of escaping air.

The original pipes and wind-chest remain to-day in perfect condition.

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