wind chest

British  

/ wɪnd /

noun

1. a box in an organ in which air from the bellows is stored under pressure before being supplied to the pipes or reeds

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Example Sentences

He took organ lessons and, when he was in high school, he learned to make repairs, replacing the dried-out leather lining deep inside in the organ’s wind chest.

From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2013

The so-called hydraulic organ was probably one in which water was used to perfect the air-holding qualities of the wind chest, in the same manner as now in gas holders.

From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)

In this arrangement the condenser corresponds to the wind chest, and it is continually kept full of electrical energy by means of the induction coil or transformer, which answers to the bellows of the organ.

From Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy by Fleming, John Ambrose

The 1st, 3d, 5th, and 8th will produce a perfect chord when the air is admitted through the 11 holes in the wind chest; with one wind tube the entire gamut may be obtained.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 401, September 8, 1883 by Various

These two plates separate a back chamber or wind chest from the tube, and the wind chest communicates with a reservoir of compressed air or a high-pressure steam boiler.

From Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy by Fleming, John Ambrose