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From the cylinders there are connecting pipes attached to the neck of the regulator, and directed towards the ventholes in the windchest.
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These handles, when turned, open ventholes from the windchest into the channels.
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Then the elbows, raising the bottoms within the cylinders by repeated and violent blows, and stopping the openings above by means of the cymbals, compress the air which is enclosed in the cylinders, and force it into the pipes, through which it runs into the regulator, and through its neck into the windchest.
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When the windchest has received the air, these valves will stop up the openings, and prevent the wind from coming back again.
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Tightly fixed on the neck of the regulator is the windchest, which supports the principal part of the contrivance, called in Greek the [Greek: kanôn mousikos].
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