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单词 melophone
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melophonen.

Brit. /ˈmɛləfəʊn/, U.S. /ˈmɛləˌfoʊn/
Forms: 1800s– melophone, 1900s– mélophone.
Origin: Probably a borrowing from French. Etymon: French mélophone.
Etymology: Probably < French mélophone (documented from 1847, but probably coined by 1837, when an instrument subsequently known by this name was invented: see quot. 19752) < mélo- melo- comb. form + -phone -phone comb. form. Compare earlier melophonic adj.
Music. Now historical.
Any of various kinds of accordion, esp. one shaped like a guitar or cello and designed to be held on the player's lap.
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melophone1841
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organetto1983
1841 Daily Atlas_ (Boston) 17 Nov. 1/6 New Musical Instrument. John Ashton & Co..have imported and have for sale, a melophone, an entirely new musical instrument... The inventor, Monsieur Leclerc... It has seven rows of keys and semitones, and is held in the left hand in the manner of the Guitar.
1879 A. J. Hipkins in G. Grove Dict. Music I. 667 The only maker of melophones in 1855.
1883 in G. Grove Dict. Music III. 97 Regondi..on the former of these tours [in 1841]..played both the guitar and the melophone (whatever that may have been).
1961 J. Howarth in A. C. Baines Musical Instruments through Ages xiii. 323 He made his name on the Mélophone..a bellows instrument built in approximately guitar shape, played across the knees.
1975 S. Marcuse Musical Instruments (rev. ed.) 337/2 Melophone, false designation of the accordion.
1975 S. Marcuse Musical Instruments (rev. ed.) 337/2 Mélophone, free-reed instr[ument] invented by Lecler, a Parisian clockmaker, by 1837, in form of a large guitar or hurdy-gurdy.
1984 New Grove Dict. Musical Instruments at Mélophone Durbain subsequently developed the harmonium, which eventually superseded the mélophone.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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