Harmonicon

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  • n. ,(music) the harmonica
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A small, flat, wind instrument of music, in which the notes are produced by the vibration of free metallic reeds; it is now called the harmonica.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. See harmonica, 2.
  • n. An orchestrion.
  • n. An acoustical apparatus consisting of a flame of hydrogen burning in a glass tube so as to produce a musical tone. See singing-flame.
  • Word Usage
    "The music which produced the miraculous effect was that of Kouei, the Orpheus of the Chinese, whose performance on the king, a kind of harmonicon constructed of slabs of sonorous stone, would draw wild animals around him and make them subservient to his will."
    Variant
    harmonica