| 单词 | organ-beater |
| 释义 | > as lemmasorgan-beater organ-beater n. [compare post-classical Latin pulsans organa organist (1535 in a British source), German Orgelschläger (1843 in the passage translated in quot. 1852)] a person who plays a medieval organ (an instrument with large keys, struck with the fist). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > keyboard player > [noun] > organist > players of specific types of organ organ-beater1852 calliopist1857 theatre organist1932 1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. 17 Their [sc. the keys'] mechanism was so clumsy and heavy, that the player had to beat them down about one foot deep with his fists,—whence the expression organ-beater. 1877 E. J. Hopkins & E. F. Rimbault Organ 33 They [sc. the keys] were struck down by the fist of the player..whence..arose the expression organ-beater. 1926 C. G. Hamilton Epochs Musical Progress 52 Since each one was from four to six inches wide, and consequently had to be struck by the organist's clenched fist—whence he was called ‘organ beater’. < as lemmas |
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