单词 | orphion |
释义 | orphionn. Now historical. A kind of musical instrument (not identified).Known only from Cokayne's assertion that it was invented by Thomas Pilkington (?1625–?60): see quots. 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 1658 A. Cokayne Small Poems 78 Mastring all Musick that was known before; He did invent the Orphion, and gave more. 1776 J. Hawkins Hist. Mus. iii. 345 As to the instrument called the Orpharion,..it cannot be the same with the Orphion. 1895 Dict. National Biogr. at Pilkington, Francis Pilkington was the father or near relative of Thomas Pilkington, also a chorister of Chester Cathedral... Thomas was the inventor of the orphion. 1910 F. W. Galpin Old Eng. Instruments of Mus. ii. 32 The Orphion, invented by Thomas Pilkington, who was born in 1625, must have differed in some way from the earlier Orpharion. 1980 New Grove Dict. Music XIV. 749/2 It was this Pilkington [sc. Thomas] who, Hawkins asserted, invented an instrument called the orphion, and who was a musician to Queen Henrietta, wife of Charles I. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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