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A bellows is a device for providing a stream of air. It acts like the lungs, drawing in air when opened and providing that air through a small aperture when compressed.While bellows are used as the primary mechanism for accordion- and concertina-family instruments and to drive some types of bagpipes and were used before motorized air pumps were available on organs, the bellows is not, on its own, a musical instrument.Instruments which use bellows do fit into the Wind Instrument family, and instruments which, historically, were actuated by bellows are also still considered members of the Wind instruments.However, in any taxonomy more complicated than the one you're taught in elementary school, instruments like organs can be very difficult to fit into a single category since they have keyboards, can change their tone (timbre), and can be (as in the case of the Mighty Wurlitzer theatre organs) fitted with air-actuated percussion instruments and even air-motor actuated strings.For clarification, "wind instrument" and "air instrument" would be the same thing, with "air instrument" being a term not used at all in any discipline. "Tapping instruments" are percussion instruments, and again, the term "tapping instruments" is not used.
The mouthpiece of a woodwind instrument is the part of the instrument which is placed partly in the player's mouth. Single-reed instruments have mouthpieces while exposed double-reed instruments and open flutes do not have mouthpieces. The oboe and the bassoon are two instruments that have a double reed.
saxophone, flute, clarinet
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A bellows is a device for providing a stream of air. It acts like the lungs, drawing in air when opened and providing that air through a small aperture when compressed.While bellows are used as the primary mechanism for accordion- and concertina-family instruments and to drive some types of bagpipes and were used before motorized air pumps were available on organs, the bellows is not, on its own, a musical instrument.Instruments which use bellows do fit into the Wind Instrument family, and instruments which, historically, were actuated by bellows are also still considered members of the Wind instruments.However, in any taxonomy more complicated than the one you're taught in elementary school, instruments like organs can be very difficult to fit into a single category since they have keyboards, can change their tone (timbre), and can be (as in the case of the Mighty Wurlitzer theatre organs) fitted with air-actuated percussion instruments and even air-motor actuated strings.For clarification, "wind instrument" and "air instrument" would be the same thing, with "air instrument" being a term not used at all in any discipline. "Tapping instruments" are percussion instruments, and again, the term "tapping instruments" is not used.
The mouthpiece of a woodwind instrument is the part of the instrument which is placed partly in the player's mouth. Single-reed instruments have mouthpieces while exposed double-reed instruments and open flutes do not have mouthpieces. The oboe and the bassoon are two instruments that have a double reed.
saxophone, flute, clarinet
A bellows is a device for delivering pressurized air in a controlled quantity to a controlled location. Basically, a bellows is a deformable container which has an outlet nozzle. When the volume of the bellows is decreased, the air escapes through the outlet. A bellows typically has a separate inlet, and valves or flaps to ensure that air enters only through the inlet and exits only through the outlet.
A bellows is an air pump . A pump organ would have a bellows . A poet might conceivably use bellows as a figure of speech to stand for a pump organ.
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In an accordion the sound is produced by metal reeds vibrating freely (not beating against a frame) when blown by bellows operated by the player. Valves operated by the keys and buttons direct air from the bellows past the reeds, making them vibrate. An accordion is classified as a FREE-REED instrument, along with the harmonica, harmonium, concertina, melodian, melodica and various traditional East Asian instruments such as the Sheng and Sho, whence the accordion and its ilk were originally derived.
A bellows-mender is someone who repairs bellows, the instrument which puffs air into a fire to make it hotter. The bellows consists of two hinged pieces of wood with a leather bag attached to them, and the leather of the hinges and the bag was always wearing out.
As long as your bellows has an intake port - a small opening through which air can enter - they will never run out. Think of it this way, your mouth is an intake port. Each time you breathe the (free) air, your chest fills. Each time you open the bellows, it fills.
By using bellows to feed air into the fire