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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. An apparatus invented by J. B. Logier in London, about 1810, for training the hands of beginners in pianoforte-playing. It consisted of complex arrangements to sustain and guide the wrist and the fingers. A simplification of the machine, invented by Kalkbrenner in 1818, is still in occasional use.

Wiktionary

  1. n. music A device to guide the hands and fingers of pupils in playing the piano, etc.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Mus.) An instrument to guid the hands and fingers of pupils in playing on the piano, etc.

Etymologies

  1. Ancient Greek formed by hand; hand + to shape. (Wiktionary)

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  • “I had, however, no teacher at this time but my aunt Dall, and I suppose the chiroplast may have saved her some trouble, by insuring that my practising, which she could not always superintend, should not be merely”

    Records of a Girlhood

  • “As for the horse, his legs stuck through the bridge, as though he had been put in a _chiroplast_, and he went playing away on the water with considerable execution, as if he were accompanying himself in the song which he was squealing at the top of his voice.”

    Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes

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