单词 | ocarina |
释义 | ocarinan. A small keyless wind instrument in the form of a hollow egg-shaped (usually terracotta) body with finger-holes and a simple mouthpiece. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > wind instrument > pipe > [noun] > other pipes pipette?a1475 nightingale pipe1626 Picco pipe1856 ocarina1877 1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 318/1 Ocarine (It.), a series of seven musical instruments made of terra cotta, pierced with small holes, invented by a company of performers calling themselves the Mountaineers of the Apennines.] 1877 T. Zach Brit. Patent 1020 A musical wind instrument..preferably formed of clay, and then baked or burnt; it is to be called the ‘Ocarina’. 1883 Good Words 24 132 Ducks and geese, which are to the loudest..Cochin China, what an ocarina is to a flageolet. 1921 J. N. Hall & C. B. Nordhoff Faery Lands South Seas 192 Takiero..was sitting near by playing, ‘Conquer the North’ on my ocharina. 1930 R. Paget Human Speech 8 The ocarina is, I believe, the only well-known wind instrument which operates on the principle of the ‘Helmholtz’ resonator. 1941 Harvard Jrnl. Asiatic Stud. 6 255 Close to the railway station..a few ceramics dating from the T'ang dynasty were also found. Of these objects I mention here only a pear-shaped occarina in grey ware. 1978 Early Music 6 451/1 It is not..the fact that it is made of clay that defines an ocarina. 1996 F. Popcorn & L. Marigold Clicking ii. 67 In these Clanning bookstores, the warm atmosphere makes people feel secure enough to talk to one another, whether it's about the occult, Oceanus, or the ocarina. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1877 |
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