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ˈglassichord U.S. Obs. exc. Hist.
Also glassy-chord.
[f. glass n.1 4 + -chord as in harpsichord.]
= harmonica 1 a.
1835J. H. Ingraham South-West I. ii. 24 The musical rippling of the eddies—like a glassichord, rapidly run over by light fingers. 1886Harper's Mag. July 286/1 Turning upon his perch, he [sc. the cricket] brings to view his ‘glassichord’, or shrilling organ. 1954Grove's Dict. Mus. (ed. 5) I. 205/2 Franklin's invention..was also popularly known as the ‘glassy-chord’. |