The last is the original of all our free-reed musical instruments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference

A portable free-reed musical instrument. advisory adj.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

May 23 ... or maybe some other day entirely) and, anyway, the accordion was actually invented cheng, a distant ancestor of the accordion, is the oldest known free-reed instrument, dating back a couple thousand years or so.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spark of Yahoo!] Reference