| 释义 |
ˈaerophone|-fəʊn|
[f. aero- + -phone.]
1. A device invented by Edison for amplifying sound. (Disused.)
1878Telegraphic Jrnl. 15 May 200/2 A company of English merchants have offered Mr. Edison {pstlg}60,000 if he can successfully apply his aërophone or talking fog-horn to ‘the local telegraph wires’ in London. 1894W. Jerrold Electricians & Marvels vi. 120 The ‘aerophone’ a great voice of two hundred and fifty times the capacity of the human lungs, which is designed to be used between lighthouses or lightships and vessels at sea.
2. Any musical instrument in which the sound is produced by a vibrating column of air.
1937Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Apr. 288/2 Those [instruments] which employ..a column of air (aerophones). 1959Collins Music Encycl. 333/2 Aerophones, woodwinds, brass, and instruments using a free reed. 1960Times 18 Mar. 4/6 The instrument is a thin plate from the inner side of the birch bark, technically described as an aerophone with a tongue but without a soundboard. |