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单词 harmonicon
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harmoniconn.

/hɑːˈmɒnɪkən/
Etymology: < Greek ἁρμονικόν, neuter singular of ἁρμονικός harmonic adj. and n.
A name given to various musical instruments.
a. = harmonica n. 1a.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > other musical instruments > [noun] > musical glasses
musical glasses1761
glass1762
harmonica1762
finger glass1789
harmonicon1825
glassichord1835
1825 F. H. Smith U.S. Patent Specif. 7 Apr. Musical glasses, called the Grand harmonicon.
1842 Mechanics' Mag. 37 70 The pressure of the performer's finger..is the great charm of such instruments as the harmonicon [etc.].
b. = harmonica n. 1b; also applied to instruments similarly constructed.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > [noun] > glass plates
harmonicon1864
harmonica1880
1864 C. Engel Music Most Anc. Nations 11 Instruments consisting of a series of pieces of sonorous wood..made to vibrate by being beaten with a stick or hammer, like our harmonicon.
1875 B. Loewy tr. Weinhold Exp. Physics 374 As in the glass-harmonicon which consists of strips of glass affixed to cords at the nodal points.
1885 Daily News 17 Aug. 6/1 A very great curiosity is the rock harmonicon, or musical stones..‘reduced to music’ by Crosthwaite, of Keswick.
c. A mouth-organ consisting of a row of free reeds arranged in a case so as to give different notes by expiration and inspiration.
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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
1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 217/1 Harmonicon, an instrument only used as a toy which consists of free reeds inclosed in a box in such a way that inspiration produces one set of sounds, respiration another.
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d. A kind of barrel organ with a number of stops imitating various orchestral instruments; also called orchestrion.
e. chemical harmonicon, an apparatus in which musical tones are produced by flames of hydrogen or other gas burning in glass tubes.
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1875 B. Loewy tr. Weinhold Exp. Physics 379 The apparatus..has been termed the chemical harmonicon.
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