It is here argued that the commonly held view of organ pipe oscillation as pipe‐controlled ’’edgetone’’ oscillation is misleading. Edge‐related effects, being of higher multipole order than the pipe‐related air motion, are inherently less efficient, and may be ignored in the presence of strong resonator coupling. It is proposed that the term edgetone or ’’jet‐edge oscillation’’ be applied to a free jet‐edge (or weakly coupled pipe) situation, while a normal resonant organ pipe oscillation should be referred to as ’’pipetone.’’