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MELODEON

The melodeon is a kind of small reed organ, a portable form of the seraphine.
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REED

In music a reed is a small piece of cane or wood attached to the mouthpiece of certain instruments, and set in vibration by the breath. In the clarinet it is a single fiat reed; in the oboe and bassoon it is double, forming a compressed tube. The term reed also describes one of the thin pieces of metal, the vibration of which produce the tones of a melodeon, accordion, harmonium, or seraphine and are also attached to certain sets or registers of pipes in an organ.
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REED ORGAN

In music a reed organ is an organ in which the wind acts on a set of free reeds, as the harmonium, melodeon, concertina, etc.
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SERAPHINE

The seraphine is a wind instrument whose sounding parts are reeds, consisting of a thin tongue of brass playing freely through a slot in a plate. It has a case, like a piano, and is played by means of a similar keyboard, the bellows being worked by the foot. The melodeon is a portable variety of this instrument.
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