seraphinen.
/ˈsɛrəfiːn/ A musical instrument of the reed kind, invented by John Green in 1833.
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serinette1772
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harmoniphon1839
seraphine1839
pyrophone1873
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orguinette1881
orchestrelle1897
1839 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 2 318/2 Certain improvements in the construction of certain musical instruments..of the kind commonly called seraphines.
1845 W. Gresley Frank's First Trip 201 Six or eight women..were singing a plaintive hymn, accompanied by a seraphine.
1879 A. J. Hipkins in Grove's Dict. Music I. 667 In England keyboard harmonicas with bellows were known by the name of Seraphine, which was not an harmonium.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 7 June 8/1 In most Boer houses of the better class there is an American organ or ‘seraphine’.
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