aerophone

[air-uh-fohn]

noun

1. any musical wind instrument.

Word History and Origins

Origin of aerophone¹

First recorded in 1875–80; aero- + -phone

Example Sentences

This type of instrument is called an aerophone , and the most well-known of this type of instrument are often called wind instruments because, although the instrument itself does vibrate a little, most of the sound is produced by standing waves in the column of air inside the instrument.

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Something is stirring in the bellows-driven, free-reed aerophone undergrowth.

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Can you give me a short description of the principle and construction of the aerophone?

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His inventive faculties now getting full play, he took out over fifty patents in connection with improvements in telegraphy, including the duplex, quadruplex, and sextuplex system; the carbon telephone transmitter; microtasimeter; aerophone, for amplifying sound; the megaphone, for magnifying sound.

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Some of Edison's inventions have a character at present of little more than picturesque playfulness, such as the Phonograph, perhaps the most remarkable of these minor inventions; the Aerophone, by which sounds are amplified without loss of distinctness; the Megaphone, an instrument which, inserted in the ear, so magnifies sounds that faint whispers may be heard a thousand feet; the Phonometer, for measuring the force of the soundwaves caused by the human voice; the Microtasimeter, for measuring small variations in temperature.

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