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1833 Trans. Cambr. Philos. Soc. 4 347 A similar explanation will apply to the case of the reed of an organ pipe, to the free reeds now so much in vogue, [etc.].

1846 London Jrnl. Arts, Sci., & Manuf. 29 67 Improvements in organs, seraphines, and other ‘free reed’ instruments.

1864 C. Engel Music Most Anc. Nations 18 Each of these tubes contains a small metallic tongue, like the so-called free-reed stops of our organ, or like our accordion.

1939 Music & Lett. 20 439 It is strange that this free-reed instrument [sc. the Chinese sheng] did not reach Europe until the close of the eighteenth century.

1962 W. L. Sumner Organ (ed. 3) 271 Organ reed stops are of two kinds: those which have a metal tongue which vibrates inside a rectangular opening without touching its sides, and those which beat against a metal plate alternately opening and covering a hole cut therein. The former are known as free reeds.

2006 D. E. Bush & R. Kassel Organ 210/1 Some scholars attribute the invention of free-reed organ pipes to the Italian instrument maker Filippo Testa (ca.1700).