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Preferred term

Reed organs  

Definition

  • Keyboard instruments whose sound is produced by freely vibrating reed tongues (usually without individual resonators) and activated by air under either pressure or suction [New Grove Musical Inst.]

Broader concept

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Entry terms

  • American organs
  • Cabinet organs
  • Harmoniums
  • Melodeons
  • Organs, reed
  • Seraphines
  • Vocalions

Notation

  • 120269

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-D55DNR5B-L

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