aeolian harp

See also: æolian harp

English
An oak aeolian harp.

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Noun

aeolian harp (plural aeolian harps)

  1. (music) An open box over which strings are stretched that sound when the wind passes over them
    • 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter III,
      […] the noise made by the beating of the waves on the land and the sighing of the wind amongst the pendulous leaves—or rather pendant fringe of the casuarina or she-oak, those aeolian harps of the Australian bush, almost drowned their voices.

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  • Appendix:Glossary of chordophones
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