单词 | pantaleon |
释义 | pantaleonn. Music. Now historical. A large dulcimer capable of extensive dynamic variation and influential in the development of the piano, having 185 double strings of metal and gut sounded by means of hand-held hammers or sticks. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > dulcimer > [noun] dulcimer1509 pantaleon1757 hackbrett1807 kanoon1817 santoor1853 yang ch'in1876 cembalo1879 cimbalom1879 cymbalo1879 gigalira1889 string drum1940 1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. IV. 125 M. Panthaleon Hebenstreit, never refuses to gratify strangers with a sight of the Panthaleon, a musical instrument called by his own name, who was the inventor of it. 1774 N. W. Wraxall Tour N. Europe (1775) ii. 11 She plays on an instrument resembling our spinet, and which they call a pantaloon. 1838 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 790/2 Pantalone. 1941 Scrutiny 9 4/394 A ‘Pantaleonist’ is not an instrument,..but a player on the ‘Pantaleon’. 1980 New Grove Dict. Music VIII. 427/1 The development of the piano robbed the pantaleon of its popularity and it eventually disappeared altogether. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1757 |
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