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‖ piˈano-vioˈlin
[A combination in which the two elements are arranged in French order, violin qualifying piano.]
A keyed instrument, like the harmonichord, producing tones resembling those of the violin: see quot.
1880A. J. Hipkins in Grove Dict. Mus. II. 746/1 Chladni much favoured the idea of a piano violin, and under his auspices one was made in 1795 by von Mayer of Görlitz... At last, in 1865, Hubert Cyrille Baudet introduced one in Paris capable of rapid articulation,..patenting it in England as ‘Piano-Violin’... The strings are of wire..and attached to a nodal, or nearly nodal, point of each, is a piece of stiff catgut. |