单词 | harmonicon |
释义 | harmoniconn. A name given to various musical instruments. a. = harmonica n. 1a. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. 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 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. Categories » 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. ΚΠ 1875 B. Loewy tr. Weinhold Exp. Physics 379 The apparatus..has been termed the chemical harmonicon. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1825 |
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