Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 539
516 ORGANS, REED. … The means for controllingthe passage of air from thereeds consist of the valves/. As these, in all ordinaryinstruments, are mounted in-Bide the wind-chest, they aredifficult to reach ; hence itis important that they shouldbe strongly constructed andself-adjusting. Figs. 3339and 3340 represent, in…
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