534a10: Air chamber

Reed instruments can also have an air reservoir or air chamber.

Bagpipes have an air chamber in the form of a bag.

Concertinas, accordians, harmonicas, and pipe organs use air chambers. They are considered free-reed instruments because there is a reed for each pipe or note desired.

• Ocm module: Air chamber
• In ocm module: Aerophones
• In ocm module: Musical instruments
• In modular book: Expanded ethnomusicology categories for the Outline of Cultural Materials, by Kenneth R. Hollingsworth
• In bookshelf: Anthropology

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