英语词汇“pyrophone”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

pyrophone n.

Brit.

/ˈpʌɪrə(ʊ)fəʊn/

U.S.

/ˈpaɪrəˌfoʊn/

[after French pyrophone (G. F. Kastner: see Comptes rendus hebd. de l'Acad. des Sci. (1873) 76 700)] any of various pieces of apparatus designed to produce musical sounds using flames or explosions; esp. a musical instrument (invented by G. F. Kastner in 1869) resembling a small pipe organ, bearing a series of glass tubes, each containing two gas flames burning close together, and producing a resonant sound when the flames are separated by pressing down a key.

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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

1873 Galaxy July 133/1 M. Fr. Kastner, inventor of a novel musical instrument, called by him the pyrophone.

1882 Nature 27 July 304/1 This phenomenon, which Kastner called the interference of flames, was the..starting-point of Kastner's Pyrophone or Flame-Organ, which he patented in 1873.

1988 Economist 13 Feb. 92/2 Pyrophones—gas blowlamps played through old fluorescent tubes—add mournful, organ-like sounds.

2002 Northern News (Brisbane) (Nexis) 4 Apr. Pyrophone player Anna Shyman said her group..had taken the idea of a normal air-powered organ and substituted fire to create an instrument that changed its tune nearly every time it was played.

单词	pyrophone
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