melodikon
/mɪˈlɒdɪkɒn/Music. Now chiefly historical
noun
A musical instrument in which tuning forks are brought into contact with a rotating steel cone by means of a keyboard.
Origin
1970s. From Danish melodikon (probably named 1800 by the inventor, Peter Rieffelsen of Copenhagen) from Hellenistic Greek μελῳδικόν, neuter of μελῳδικός.
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