单词 | bird organ |
释义 | > as lemmasbird organ bird organ n. now historical a small barrel organ originally designed for teaching caged birds to sing; = serinette n. 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 1745 London Evening-post 5–7 Nov. J. Tax..Makes and mends all Sorts of Musical Boxes, or Bird Organs, for teaching Birds better than with a Flageolet. 1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists iv. 177 A minuet-tune played on a bird-organ. 2006 R. Kassel in D. E. Bush & R. Kassel Organ 324/1 The pinned rotating cylinder was also the mechanism used in the eighteenth-century bird organ (or serinette), designed to teach real birds to sing popular melodies. < as lemmas |
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