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Novachord|ˈnəʊvəkɔːd| Also novachord. [f. L. nova new + chord n.2] Name of an electronic musical instrument of the organ family.
1940Chamber's Techn. Dict. 584/1 Novachord, an electronic musical instrument using a single keyboard, sustaining and swell pedals. 1944W. Apel Harvard Dict. Mus. 237/1 The Novachord, a six-octave, single-manual instrument which..resembles the spinet in form, employs a purely electronic tone-generating system. 1952B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz in Amer. (1958) xxiii. 324 He made Shearing-like records with rhythm section and Novachord. 1955L. Feather Encycl. Jazz (1956) 111 LPs: Bruns. 58048 (trio & Terry Gibbs);..Dec. 5297 (novachord, w. Hampton). 1970Oxf. Compan. Mus. (ed. 10) 325/1 Akin to oscillating valve organs is the Novachord, a domestic six-octave keyboard instrument giving fourteen different tonal qualities. |