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panharmonic, a.|ˌpænhɑːˈmɒnɪk| [f. pan- all + harmonic: cf. next.] a. Adapted to all the ‘harmonies’ or musical modes. b. Universally harmonic, harmonizing with all.
1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 274 We shall not want multiplicity of notes or a panharmonic scale. 1886Farrar Hist. Interpretation iv. 236 St. Augustine..demanded that all interpretation should be panharmonic. So panharˈmonicon, a mechanical musical instrument of the orchestrion type, invented by J. N. Maelzel in 1800.
1848J. H. Newman Loss & Gain iii. x. 381 The whole congregation was as though one vast instrument or Panharmonicon, moving all together. 1879Grove's Dict. Mus. II. 194 Maelzel..devoted himself to constructing an automaton instrument of flutes, trumpets, drums, cymbals, triangle, and strings struck by hammers... His next machine was the Panharmonicon,..with clarinets, violins and cellos added. |