Seraphine

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Seraphine \Ser"a*phine\, n. [From {Seraph}.] (Mus.)
     A wind instrument whose sounding parts are reeds, consisting
     of a thin tongue of brass playing freely through a slot in a
     plate. It has a case, like a piano, and is played by means of
     a similar keybord, the bellows being worked by the foot. The
     melodeon is a portable variety of this instrument.


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