aeolian harp in English

noun
1
a stringed instrument that produces musical sounds when a current of air passes through it.
The aeolian harp uses the wind to generate musical sounds.
noun
    wind harp

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1. Aeolian harp Has Roots in Greek Myth

2. Roxanne Turcotte is currently working on an aeolian harp.

3. The Aeolian harp was an important symbol of artistic inspiration in Romanticism.

4. R274 E G10D 17/00 --- for in any other group of this subclass, e.g. Aeolian harp, ---

5. In 1829, Charles Wheatstone developed a mouth-organ under the name "Aeolina" (inspired by the Aeolian harp)

6. Perhaps certain "ghosts" were nothing more than puffs of wind whirling between the strings of a strategically placed Aeolian harp.

7. He began making this unusual instrument after a friend, who had read about the Aeolian harp, sketched one for him.

8. 17/ 00 Musical instruments not provided for in any of the preceding groups, e.g. Aeolian harp, singing-flame musical instrument

9. 28 Bones are also put to practical use, strung together to make a kind of aeolian harp or wind chime.

10. La harpe éolienne (The Aeolian Harp) For orchestra alone, this is another reworking of music from the cantata La mort d'Orphée.

11. The frequent use of the Aeolian harp as a symbol for the poet was a play on the renewed emphasis on afflatus.

12. As he has always liked music, he combines his interests by making instruments: several variants of the dulcimer, Celtic harp and Aeolian harp.

13. On his album Dis (1976), jazz saxophonist Jan Garbarek used as a background sound recordings of an Aeolian harp that was situated at a Norwegian fjord.

14. There is a small group of musical instruments that operate without human interaction, the aeolian harp or wind chimes are commonly known as such unintentional sound producers.

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16. Aeolian harp definition is - a box-shaped musical instrument having stretched strings usually tuned in unison on which the wind produces varying harmonics over the same fundamental tone

17. Even today, the Aeolian harp retains a slightly magical aura, as only hypothetical explanations have been found to account for the sounds produced by the wind's movement through its strings.

18. An instrument conveying the voice of nature was certain to inspire poets and writers at a time when burgeoning romanticism glorified nature. The Aeolian harp was thus the source of several poems.

19. A prolific composer of songs (he would write over 180 during his career), Cowell returned in 1930–31 to Aeolian Harp, adapting it as the accompaniment to a vocal setting of a poem by his father, How Old Is Song?

20. Accordions, concertinas, or the like; Keyboards therefor (keyboards for musical instruments in general G10C 3/12) Percussive musical instruments Combinations of different musical instruments (combinations with pianos G10C) Musical instruments not provided for in any other group of this subclass, e.g. Aeolian harp, singingflame musical instrument

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