单词 | aeolina |
释义 | aeolinan. Now historical. 1. A mouth organ or harmonica, comprising metal plates enclosing free reeds. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > woodwind instruments > [noun] > reed instrument > harmonica or mouth-organ aeolina1829 French harp1855 mouth organ1866 mouth-harp1876 harmonica1880 harp1887 mouth music1887 moothie1936 1829 Times 14 Jan. 2/6 Variety of tone is obtained by employing springs of different degrees of elasticity. The most popular application of this principle is the Æolina. 1833 F. A. Butler Jrnl. 2 Feb. (1935) II. 107 At twelve, went out paying bills and calls; bought a German eolina. 1853 Househ. Words 24 Dec. 401/1 The more efficient Eolina, a little instrument from which we have heard very delicate and beautiful sounds. 1908 G. W. Andrews Musical Instruments 165 The name æolina was bestowed on it [sc. the mouth harmonica] between 1825 and 1830, because of a similarity in principle and in tone to the æolian harp. 1974 Galpin Soc. Jrnl. 27 158 Articles from the Penny Magazine in 1839 on use of free reeds in the Eolina and other instruments. 2. = aeoline n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop > string-tone stops viol1688 violin1688 viol da gamba1826 gamba1829 viola da (also di) gamba1852 violon1852 aeolina1855 German gamba1860 aeoline1865 viola1876 violoncello1876 1855 Musical World 9 June 67/2 Fancy stops, such as Clarabella, Eolina, and Viol di Gamba in the Great Organ. 1888 A. Schauenburg tr. C. Locher Explan. Organ Stops 2 Æolina combines well with Voix Céleste. 1919 G. A. Audsley Organ of 20th Cent. xi. 330 The Æolina, 8 ft., to be voiced to yield a soft and plaintive flute-tone: its CC pipe to be 2-28 inches in diameter. 1975 O. C. Ochse Hist. Organ in U.S. xiii. 262 Brooklyn Tabernacle Presbyterian Church..George Jardine & Son, 1890... Aeolina 8′. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1829 |
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