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单词 harmonica
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harmonican.

/hɑːˈmɒnɪkə/
Forms: Also 1700s armonica.
Etymology: feminine of Latin harmonicus harmonic adj. and n., used substantively.
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.
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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.
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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.)
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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.
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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.
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