单词 | orguinette |
释义 | orguinetten. Now historical. A mechanical musical instrument, consisting of a set of reeds and a bellows, the wind from which is admitted to the reeds through holes in a strip of paper which is moved along by turning a crank. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > types of organ > [noun] > other types of organ great organ1605 bird organ1745 serinette1772 euharmonic organ1811 physharmonica1838 harmoniphon1839 seraphine1839 pyrophone1873 string organ1876 orguinette1881 orchestrelle1897 1881 C. L. Dodgson Let. 1 Feb. in M. Cohen Lett. Lewis Carroll (1979) I. 406 She is sending me a set of ‘scales’ to practise on the piano-forte or the orguinette. 1885 Bazaar, Exchange & Mart 30 Mar. 1264/1 Orguinette, with music, quite new. 1885 Church Bells July 3 (advt.) Orguinette Music, 1½ per foot. 1897 Harper's Mag. May 979/2 What doubtless soon they'll give us now, a Cureall Orguinette. 1993 S. R. Kesten Utopian Episodes 179 In Iowa they had an orguinette that produced popular airs and hymns from a punched paper roll. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1881 |
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