Definition of Aerophone. Meaning of Aerophone. Synonyms of Aerophone

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Definition of Aerophone

Aerophone
Aerophone A"["e]r*o*phone`, n. [A["e]ro- + Gr. ? voice.] (a) A form of combined speaking and ear trumpet. (b) An instrument, proposed by Edison, for greatly intensifying speech. It consists of a phonograph diaphragm so arranged that its action opens and closes valves, producing synchronous air blasts sufficient to operate a larger diaphragm with greater amplitude of vibration.

Meaning of Aerophone from wikipedia

- An aerophone (/ˈɛəroʊfoʊn/) is a musical instrument that produces sound primarily by causing a body of air to vibrate, without the use of strings or membranes...
- Reed aerophones is one of the categories of musical instruments found in the Hornbostel-Sachs system of musical instrument classification. In order to...
- A free reed aerophone is a musical instrument that produces sound as air flows past a vibrating reed in a frame. Air pressure is typically generated by...
- may belong to the organological classes of idiophone, membranophone, aerophone and chordophone. The percussion section of an orchestra most commonly...
- musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound...
- instrument of the general class of hand-held bellows-driven free reed aerophones such as the accordion and the concertina. The term is so applied because...
- family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a reed in a frame). The essential...
- A mouth organ is any free reed aerophone with one or more air chambers ****ed with a free reed. Though it spans many traditions, it is pla**** universally...
- Harmonica, free-reed aerophone (G. Mundharmonika) Gl**** harmonica, gl**** ideophone (G. Glasharmonika) Accordion, keyboard aerophone (G. Handharmonika) This...
- A fife (/faɪf/ FYFE) is a small, high-pitched, transverse aerophone, that is similar to the piccolo. The fife originated in medieval Europe and is often...