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

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It's a free-reed instrument and works by blowing air through a mouthpiece.

What's it worth?

I pared down my source material to one acoustic instrument and one electronic instrument: a Laotian free-reed instrument called the khaen and an early analog synthesizer, the VCS3.I immediately liked what the two were capable of doing in tandem, as a single, compound instrument.

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An ocarina is an ancient, flute-like instrument; a melodica is a free-reed instrument, a cross between an accordion and a harmonica; and a theremin is one of the earliest fully electronic musical instruments.