shōn.2
/ʃəʊ/ A small Japanese organ, made from seventeen vertical bamboo pipes, which is held in the hand and blown into.
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1888 L. A. Smith Music of Waters 281 The ‘shô’..seems to correspond to our organ, but only in so far as it has pipes.
1936 K. Sunaga Japanese Music 27 The shō is an instrument of which there seems to be no equivalent outside oriental music, though it is sometimes spoken of as a mouth organ.
1972 Times 18 Sept. 5/4 The head priest showed the instruments to Mr Heath, who took special interest in the sho pipes... He watched closely as a musician demonstrated the sho.
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