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GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Music) a reed that does not fit closely over the aperture.
  2. n. (Mus.) a reed whose edges do not overlap the wind passage, -- used in the harmonium, concertina, etc. It is distinguished from the beating or striking reed of the organ and clarinet.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a reed that does not fit closely over the aperture

Examples

  • “The last is the original of all our free-reed musical instruments.”

    Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878

  • “On one Saturday, the band Bong Lan combined saxophone, drums and keyboard with khene (a free-reed Thai mouth organ) and seung (a four-stringed guitar) to produce Thai-Western jazz fusion.”

    NYT > Travel

  • “A portable free-reed musical instrument. advisory adj.”

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  • “May 23 ... or maybe some other day entirely) and, anyway, the accordion was actually invented cheng, a distant ancestor of the accordion, is the oldest known free-reed instrument, dating back a couple thousand years or so.”

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Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. reed
  1. beating-reed instrument
  1. reed instrument

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. æolina
  2. piano accordion
  1. reed organ
  2. squeeze box
  1. free-reed instrument
  2. harmonica
  1. harmonium
  2. mouth harp
  1. mouth organ
  2. organ
  1. accordion
  2. American organ
  1. concertina
  2. harp

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