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Definition of Reed organ
1. Noun. A free-reed instrument in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reed Organ
Literary usage of Reed organ
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appletons' Cyclopædia of Applied Mechanics: A Dictionary of Mechanical by Appleton, firm, publishers, New York (1880)
"The reed organ belongs to that class of musical instruments in which the tones
are produced ... In the second, seen in the accordion and modern reed organ, ..."
2. Dwight's Journal of Music by John Sullivan Dwight (1878)
"Afterward, and not until it was in good reed organ shape, it was transferred to
paper. ... CLARKE as to make them " sing " on the reed organ. Joyous Life. ..."
3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1869)
"In 1839 he made a reed organ with tin tubes over the reeds, and soon after, one
with wooden tubes ... In 1846 he made the first four-reed organ he had seen. ..."
4. The Making of Sound in the Organ and in the Orchestra: An Analysis of the by Hermann Smith (1911)
"The Action in reed organ Pipes. THE second great department of organ tone comprises
pipes which are known as reed pipes. Among the many problems in organ ..."
5. A First course in physics by Robert Andrews Millikan, Henry Gordon Gale (1913)
"In other reed instruments, like the mouth organ, the common reed organ, ... 374.
hence the only notes of which such an instrument is reed-organ pipe ..."
6. Practical Physics by Robert Andrews Millikan, Henry Gordon Gale, Willard R. Pyle (1913)
"In other reed instruments, like the mouth organ, the common reed organ, or the
accordion, ... The reed-organ pipe 417. Vibrating lip instruments. ..."
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