单词 | obeophone |
释义 | obeophonen. Music. rare. A mechanical musical instrument designed chiefly to imitate or supply the sound of the woodwind. Cf. orchestrino n., orguinette n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > other keyboard instruments > [noun] > others ballarda1382 euphonon1824 glass-chord1825 aerophone1830 terpodion1834 orchestrino1838 panmelodicon1838 clavicylinder1880 dulcitone1888 panmelodion1890 celesta1899 Wurlitzer1925 obeophone1927 celeste1934 1927 H. E. Wortham Oscar Browning xiii. 234 For the performance of chamber music he possessed a number of orchestrine di camera, familiarly known as ‘obeophones’, which represented the wood-wind, or even supplemented the strings. 1940 V. Woolf Roger Fry ii. 49 The host himself pedalled away at the obeophone. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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