glassichordn.
U.S. Obsolete exc. Historical.
= harmonica n. 1a.
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1835 J. H. Ingraham South-West I. ii. 24 The musical rippling of the eddies—like a glassichord, rapidly run over by light fingers.
1886 Harper's Mag. July 286/1 Turning upon his perch, he [sc. the cricket] brings to view his ‘glassichord’, or shrilling organ.
1954 Grove's Dict. Music (ed. 5) I. 205/2 Franklin's invention..was also popularly known as the ‘glassy-chord’.
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