单词 | physharmonica |
释义 | physharmonican. Music. Now historical. An early form of harmonium, in which metal springs are set in vibration by a current of air. Also: a kind of reed stop on the organ, imitating the tone of this.This form of harmonium was invented by Anton Häckl of Vienna c1820, and was originally designed to be attached to a piano. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > types of organ > [noun] > other types of organ great organ1605 bird organ1745 serinette1772 euharmonic organ1811 physharmonica1838 harmoniphon1839 seraphine1839 pyrophone1873 string organ1876 orguinette1881 orchestrelle1897 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > keyboard instrument > organ > [noun] > stop > reed-stop > specific regal1555 curtal1582 trumpet1659 cremona1660 cromorne1694 hautboyc1700 horn1722 serpent1730 dulcian1773 zinke1773 trumpet stop1795 musette1825 fagotto1832 oboe1834 trombone1837 physharmonica1838 cornopean1840 ophicleide1842 posaune1843 button regal1852 shawm1852 vox angelica1852 busaun1855 bombardon1856 tuba1858 bombard1876 clarinet1876 rackett1876 tenoroon1876 clarionet1880 krummhorn1880 1838 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 476/2 Physharmonica, a musical instrument, in which the immediate sonorous bodies are springs of steel or of brass, thrown into vibration by a current of air impelled against them. 1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. 101 Phys-harmonica is a newly-invented reed-register, with a soft, agreeable tone. 1881 J. Broadhouse Student's Helmholtz 176 Musical tones of this description are those of..phys~harmonica (harmonium, concertina, accordion) [etc.]. 1943 Isis 34 332/1 To mention various other instruments varying slightly in mechanism..the physharmonica and a sort of orchestrion called the panharmonicon. 1992 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 5 Jan. 4 d Grenie's organ was no more expressive in France than anywhere else, but in the other European countries its many variants had such names as Physharmonica, Aeolodicon, Harmonium, [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1838 |
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