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单词 melodica
释义

melodican.

Brit. /mᵻˈlɒdᵻkə/, U.S. /məˈlɑdəkə/
Forms: also with capital initial.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a German lexical item. Etymons: melody n., harmonica n.
Etymology: < melody n. + -ica (in harmonica n.), after German Melodica (1772 or earlier in sense 1; the work cited in quot. 1961 at sense 2 attributes the name and the instrument to the German company Matt. Hohner AG, who today market such instruments under the name Melodica).
Music.
1. A small pipe organ, invented by J. A. Stein of Vienna. Now historical.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun]
organc1380
a pair (also set) of organs1422
box of whistles1678
kist o' whistles1772
set1795
whistle-kist1843
pipe organ1862
melodica1890
1890 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) Melodica, a small variety of pipe organ invented by J. A. Stein in 1770.
1938 Oxf. Compan. Music 789/1 Grenié's invention, the Orgue Expressif, became the parent of a progeny including the..Melodica, Melodicon..[etc.]—little more than the names of most of which survive.
2. A wind instrument consisting of a mouthpiece and a small keyboard controlling a row of reeds.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > other wind instruments > [noun]
gora1822–4
drone pipe1905
didgeridoo1924
jug1946
molimo1957
melodica1961
yidaki1977
1961 J. Howarth in A. C. Baines Musical Instruments through Ages xiii. 326 The ‘Melodica’ is a chromatic mouth-organ held like a recorder and fingered with a miniature piano-style keyboard.
1978 Times 15 July 2/4 (caption) Pupils..playing a Swanee whistle..and a Melodica, a wind keyboard.
1992 Option July 118/3 There's a hushed, minimalist opening piece with a piano ostinato, random percussion, and a melodica melody line.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1890
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