free-reed instrument

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free-reed instrument - a wind instrument with a free reed accordion, piano accordion, squeeze box - a portable box-shaped free-reed instrument; the reeds are made to vibrate by air from the bellows controlled by the player American organ - a free-reed instrument in which air is drawn in through reeds by suction bellows concertina - free-reed instrument played like an accordion by pushing its ends together to force air through the reeds free-reed - a reed that does not fit closely over the aperture harmonica, mouth harp, mouth organ, harp - a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole harmonium, reed organ, organ - a free-reed instrument in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows wind instrument, wind - a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath