单词 | melodikon |
释义 | melodikonn. Music. Now chiefly historical. A musical instrument in which tuning forks are brought into contact with a rotating steel cone by means of a keyboard. Cf. melodion n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > other musical instruments > [noun] > others coriunc1275 symphonyc1290 symphan1303 minstrelsyc1390 bougounc1400 clokarde?c1475 dulsacordisa1525 symphioun1578 sumphion?1590 clasher1621 orphion1658 polyphone1684 roundball1688 phonomime1834 orchestrion1838 sabbeka1844 bullroarer1848 creaker1855 melodikon1857 symphonia1864 organophone1880 magnetophone1883 Kaffir piano1897 jazzophone1926 mouth bow1932 wobbleboard1960 singing bowl1980 1857 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 485/2 Melodicon, a keyed instrument invented by Peter Riffelsen at Copenhagen in 1803. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 619/2 The inventions of Clagget, London, 1788, of Riffelsen (the melodikon), Copenhagen, 1803, and of Schuster (the adiaphonon), Vienna, 1819, were of this nature. 1975 S. Marcuse Musical Instruments (rev. ed.) 337/1 Melodikon, friction bar ‘piano’ invented ca. 1800 by P. Riffelsen... By depressing a key the corresponding tuning fork was brought in contact with a rotating steel cone. 1984 New Grove Dict. Musical Instruments II. 641/2 Melodikon, a type of Sostenente piano... The sound was produced by tuning-forks coming into contact with a rotating steel cylinder. The lowest note was c. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1857 |
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