单词 | serinette |
释义 | serinetten. Now historical. A small barrel organ originally designed for teaching cage birds to sing. 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 1772 J. R. Forster tr. L.-A. de Bougainville Voy. round World i. vii. 113 He played a sonata, and I thought I heard the strained sounds of a serinette. 1858 London Jrnl. 27 Feb. 408/3 There are puppet-shows, and performances on the accordion, and the serinette in the subterranean passage. 1883 Harper's Mag. Aug. 381/1 The historian of St. Paul's Bay records that a few years ago this church was furnished with a harmonium, ‘which replaced advantageously a “serinette” (or hand-organ)’. 1934 Musical Q. 20 18 Little organs..so-called Serinettes (canary-bird pipes), with high tones, were first introduced in the 18th century for the purpose of teaching melodies to the song-birds. 1962 Times 22 June 14/6 Before the invention of the merline and serinette, birds were taught either by the unaided human whistle or by the specially designed, slender, and soft-toned flageolet. 2004 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 27 Nov. b7 An animated musical ring of 1810 featuring a tiny woman playing a serinette. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1772 |
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