aeolinen.

1840 Musical Mag. 15 Feb. 57 It [sc. the sounding body] may be in form of a strap, as in the Æoline, or the sounding springs of our clocks; or a membrane, as in kettle-drums, bells, &c.

1862 Dwight's Jrnl. Music 25 Jan. 340/1 Our present harmonium, which has been greatly improved in construction, and which sprang from the physharmonica, or aeoline, as it is also termed, differs, it is true, from the original harmonichord.

1875 Proc. Musical Assoc. (1st Sess., 1874–5) 67 At that date harmonium or Eoline springs had not been invented, and he therefore placed a common jew's-harp at the end of the tube.

1879 A. J. Hipkins in G. Grove Dict. Music I. 667 In 1818 Haeckel constructed a diminutive æoline as an instrument to be used with a pianoforte.

2006 M. W. Jackson Harmonious Triads iv. 99 The Schweinfurt organ builder Johann Michael Voit improved upon Eschenbach and Schlimmbach's aeoline, calling his invention the aeolodicon.

1865 J. Warren Hamilton's Catech. Organ (ed. 4) I. xiv. 176 Solo organ. Tenor C to F in alt. 42 Notes... Æoline.

1874 Canad. Monthly Oct. (Exhibition Suppl.) 7/1 The Eoline stop operating with the Celeste, Trumpet and Bourdon, produces a full and sweet melody, orchestral in effect, free from harshness, and pleasant to the ear.

1876 J. Hiles Catech. Organ (1878) ix. 73 Æoline, a delicate, free-reed stop.

1943 J. N. Ashton Music in Worship ii. xi. 144 Frequently the response is too much detached from the prayer: there is a long interval consumed in the choir's ‘getting the pitch’—presumably unobtrusively, yet actually very obviously—from a faint, far-away aeoline.

1986 A. W. J. G. Ord-Hume Harmonium 185 Reed organ stops... Aeoline 8ft treble. Very string-like and sympathetic.

1992 R. Smith Saint-Saëns & Organ App. 273 Aeolian Hall... Hutchings-Votey Organ. Built for the Aeolian Company... Aeolian Echo... 8 Aeoline.