reed stop

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reed stop

n. Music
A stop on an organ made up of or controlling reed pipes.
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reed stop

n
(Music, other) an organ stop controlling a rank of reed pipes
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Noun1.reed stop - an organ stop with the tone of a reed instrument
organ stop - a graduated set of organ pipes of like tone quality
vox humana - an organ reed stop producing tones imitative of the human voice
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