aerophonen.

1830 London Lit. Gaz. 5 June 369/3 M. Dietz's ærophone, a sweet-toned instrument, three octaves in compass.

1879 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 667/1 Several imitations were made of it [sc. the Physharmonica], one of which, the Aerophone of Christian Dietz, was described by him in the 6th volume of the Revue Musicale.

1878 Times 20 Apr. 9/6 The accomplishments which are..‘claimed’ for the phonograph and its congener, the aerophone, were detailed... Mr. Edison now uses a flat plate instead of a wheel or cylinder, and is said to produce with it sounds audible 300ft. away.

1894 W. Jerrold Electricians & Marvels vi. 120 The ‘aerophone’ a great voice of two hundred and fifty times the capacity of the human lungs, which is designed to be used between lighthouses or lightships and vessels at sea.

1911 Washington Post 12 Sept. 3/6 London... Matthews, the inventor of the aerophone, talked through the air today from Beachley to New Passage, on the opposite side of the River Severn.

1912 Times 28 Feb. 6/4 A demonstration in wireless telephony was given at Cardiff yesterday, when Mr. Grindell Matthews, the inventor of the aerophone,..transmitted a message to the offices of the Western Mail... The speech was clear in spite of the passage of the voices through a network of wires.

1922 St. Nicholas May 695/2 Then followed a description of Edison's ‘Aërophone’, a description which should have done credit to a Jules Verne.

1997 S. Connor in R. Porter Rewriting the Self xiii. 217 The masculine aspect of technologized sound is manifested in the seemingly limitless acoustic power which Edison exercises by means of the telephone, for example, in the scene in which he rouses a sleeping assistant 150 miles away by means of a kind of massively amplified telephone he calls an ‘Aerophone’.

1927 W. Kaudern Musical Instruments in Celebes 10 The musical instruments found in Celebes will conveniently..be divided into the following four main groups: (A) idiophones, (B) membranophones, (C) chordophones, and (D) aerophones.

1937 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Apr. 288/2 Those [instruments] which employ..a column of air (aerophones).

1959 Collins Music Encycl. 333/2 Aerophones, woodwinds, brass, and instruments using a free reed.

1960 Times 18 Mar. 4/6 The instrument is a thin plate from the inner side of the birch bark, technically described as an aerophone with a tongue but without a soundboard.

1982 Ethnomusicology 26 321 Miller combines earlier descriptive sources with personal observations of seven types of free-reed aerophones.

2005 R. Nidel World Music: Basics vii. 353 The didj, as it is called, is a lip-vibrated aerophone of aboriginal Australia, and is among the oldest musical instruments on earth.