单词 | harmonica |
释义 | harmonican. 1. Name of several different musical instruments. a. An instrument invented by Dr. B. Franklin, consisting of a row of hemispherical glasses fitted on an axis turned by a treadle and dipping into a trough of water, played by the application of the finger; an improvement of the earlier ‘musical glasses’. Also applied to other forms in which the tones are produced in various ways from graduated glass bowls or tubes. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > other musical instruments > [noun] > musical glasses musical glasses1761 glass1762 harmonica1762 finger glass1789 harmonicon1825 glassichord1835 1762 B. Franklin Let. 13 July in Exper. & Observ. Electr. (1769) 433 In honor of your musical language, I have borrowed from it the name of this instrument, calling it the Armonica. 1777 T. Campbell Philos. Surv. S. Ireland xliv. 452 The invention of the musical glasses, now improved into the harmonica. 1831 T. Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. Mar. 143/2 His genius is not an Æolian harp..but a scientific harmonica. 1863 J. Tyndall Heat viii. §301 The flame would sing..as in the well known case of the hydrogen harmonica. b. An instrument consisting of a row of glass plates mounted on a resonance-box and struck with hammers. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > [noun] > glass plates harmonicon1864 harmonica1880 1880 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 663 The name Harmonica is now used for a toy-instrument of plates of glass hung on two tapes and struck with hammers. c. A kind of mouth-organ; also applied to other wind-instruments with reeds. (See also harmonicon n.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > types of organ > [noun] > reed-organ cottage organ1836 aeoline1840 melodeon1844 melodium1846 harmonium1847 reed organ1851 organ-harmonium1864 American organ1869 harmonicon1876 harmonica1880 organ1880 vocalion1882 squeeze-box1909 melodicon1938 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > woodwind instruments > [noun] > reed instrument > harmonica or mouth-organ aeolina1829 French harp1855 mouth organ1866 mouth-harp1876 harmonica1880 harp1887 mouth music1887 moothie1936 1880 A. J. Hipkins in G. Grove Dict. Music I. 667 In England keyboard harmonicas with bellows were known by the name of Seraphine. 1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 241/1 Concert harmonica, 10 double holes, 40 reeds, brass reed plates, celluloid covers, absolutely perfect in tone. 1938 S. G. Hedges Hohner Harmonica Band Bk. iii. 15 Harmonicas are made in several keys, the principal being G and C. 1966 L. M. Fox Instruments Pop. Mus. xiii. 84 Some harmonicas have a slider stop which can switch into play a second row of reeds tuned a semitone higher. 1973 Advocate-News (Barbados) 24 Feb. 3/6 (advt.) Attention all musicians... Just arrived:—..Harmonica Holders. 2. Name given to different organ stops. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop > mixture-stops > specific cornet1660 clarionc1670 sesquialtera1688 sesquialter1841 cymbal1852 harmonica1852 plein jeu1855 sext1855 fourniture1876 rauschpfeife1876 tertian1876 zimbel1888 cornet-stop- 1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. 98 Harmonica..is a register of a most refined, delicate tone. 1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 217/1 Harmonica..A name sometimes given to a mixture stop on foreign organs. 1880 G. Grove Dict. Music II. 601/1 On Solo Manual..Harmonica, 4 ft. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1762 |
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