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- noun The largest of all musical
instruments , played from anorgan console which produces its sound by sending air through whistles and/or reeds calledorgan pipes , by direct mechanical action, or modernly, electrically.
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- noun wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard
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pipe + organ
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