| 单词 | water organ |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswater organ water organ n. Music historical a type of early pipe organ in which water is used to regulate and maintain air pressure; = hydraulus n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > types of organ > [noun] > water-organ water organa1387 hydraulicon1570 hydraulic1626 hydraulus1874 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 73 Water organs [L. organa hydraulica] þat sowneþ by ayer and water. 1647 A. Ross Mystagogvs Poeticvs xvi. 240 Those musicall instruments of old called Hydraula, wee may call them water-organs. 1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. 13 The invention of the water-organ by..Ctesibius, of Alexandria. 1994 M. Chanan Musica Practica vii. 173 The organ..first appeared in the form of the water organ, or hydraulis. < as lemmas |
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