Bellows are a device constructed to expel a controlled blast of air. The simplest type consists of a flexible bag comprising a pair of rigid boards with handles joined by flexible leather sides enclos
Hand-made English fireplace bellows
A preserved baker's bellows at Deutsches Werkzeugmuseum (German Tools Museum) at Remscheid.
Old bellows used on goldfield near Milparinka, N.S.W., Australia. 1976.
Pair of piston bellow tubes and plungers used by the Moro on display at the Museum of the Filipino People in Manila's Rizal Park.
The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurised air through the organ pipes selected from a keyboard. Because each pipe produces a single tone and pitch, the pipes ar
Bellows
…may employ bellows as a substitute or regulator for air pressure provided by the human lungs: Accordion, concertina and related instruments Reed organ Pipe organ Musette de cour, Uilleann Pipes and some other varieties of bagpipes Harmonium and melodeon Portative The term "bellows" is used by extension for a…
Pipe organ in the collegiate church of St. Michael in Neunkirchen am Brand
Hydraulis from the 1st century BC, oldest organ found to date, Museum of Dion, Greece
4th-century AD "Mosaic of the Female Musicians" from a Byzantine villa in Maryamin, Syria.
9th-century image of an organ, from the Utrecht Psalter.