languets

If there is music for this it's windy strings and reed sections stand - ing in bright shirt fronts and black ties all along the beach, a robed organist by the breakwater-itself broken, crusted with tides-whose languets and flues gather and shape the resonant spooks here, the can-dleflame memories, all trace, particle and wave, of the sixty thousand who passed, already listed for taking, once or twice this way.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978