Meaning of glassichord | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A 19th-century musical instrument made of glass plates that are struck by hammers or sticks.
2. Synonym of glass harmonica.
3. Anything that produces a similarly pure continuous sound.
   figuratively

Examples

“A patent has been granted for the combination of the glassichord with the piano; and in the same connexion an improvement has been made in the tones of the glassichord itself, by a more elastic mode of suspending the strips of glass than has been before used.”

“Amongst other phenomena, let it be remembered that the glassichord and the drum were skilfully played upon with both sticks.”

“The instruments usually comprised a guitar, an accordion, several bells, a glassichord struck with cork hammers, and a small drum with the requisite sticks.”

“He revived and improved the harmonica, or glassichord, and extended his speculations to the finer arts; showing that he could taste and criticise even the compositions of a Handel!”

“Curiously, he omitted the only indigenous instrument, Franklin's glassichord.”

“His glassichord was a sensation in the intersecting spheres of art and science, capitalizing as it did upon a fad in London of playing concertos upon musical glasses.”

“The moveless, still air acted as a glassichord on the waters, which rang under the shrill voice of the singer.”

“Turning upon his perch , he brings to view his “glassichord," or shrilling organ, upon his back — a glass-like spot upon his wings just behind the thorax, or what might appear to be facetiously inclined as an exceedingly uncomfortable-looking collar.”

“Bobolink. For notes from the "glassichord" of fifteen bobolinks see Chapter III., near end.”

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