aeolian harp

American  

noun

1. a box with an opening across which are stretched a number of strings of equal length that are tuned in unison and sounded by the wind.

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aeolian harp British  

noun

1. Also called: wind harp. a stringed instrument that produces a musical sound when a current of air or wind passes over the strings

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Etymology

Origin of aeolian harp

First recorded in 1785–95

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Example Sentences

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aeolian harp

The Voice quivered along the Ray like the touched string of an aeolian harp.

From The Secret Power by Marie Corelli

Her voice, Sir Norman thought, was the sweetest he had ever heard, musical as a chime of silver bells, soft as the tones of an aeolian harp through which the west wind plays.

From The Midnight Queen by May Agnes Fleming

And now you suggest it, I think the sounds we hear are not unlike those of an aeolian harp!

From Donal Grant, by George MacDonald by George MacDonald

Frances Ridley Havergal had an aeolian harp sent to her which she tried to play with her fingers, and failed.

From And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses by J. Wilbur Chapman

"Do you know, my lady," he asked Arctura, "how the aeolian harp is placed for the wind to wake it?"

From Donal Grant, by George MacDonald by George MacDonald

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