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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