A bald-headed person.

A musical instrument (see quot. 1842) which resembled the upright piano in form and the organ in tone.

(see quot. 1825).

A type of musical instrument, resembling a concertina. Obsolete.

Name given to a musical instrument, invented in 1816 and improved in 1832, but never actually in use.

A keyboard instrument designed to imitate the sounds of various other instruments (see quots.).

A keyboard instrument similar to the clavicylinder, in which sound is made by friction between tuned metal bars and a rotating barrel.

A musical instrument invented by Chladni.

A keyboard instrument in which sound is produced by striking modified tuning forks with hammers (see quot. 1888).

= panmelodicon, n.

A keyboard instrument with piano-like action, having hammers that strike upon steel plates placed over wooden resonators, invented by Auguste Mustel…

The proprietary name of various musical instruments made by the Rudolf Wurlitzer Company, spec. a type of large electric organ, or a player-piano…

A mechanical musical instrument designed chiefly to imitate or supply the sound of the woodwind. Cf. orchestrino, n., orguinette, n.

= celesta, n.