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pyrophone

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A musical instrument in which the tones are produced by means of burning jets of hydrogen inclosed in graduated glass tubes. It was invented about 1875 by Frederic Kastner. Sometimes called chemical harmonicon.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A musical instrument in which the tones are produced by flames of hydrogen, or illuminating gas, burning in tubes of different sizes and lengths.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun music a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by flames of gas in tubes of different length

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

pyro- + -phone

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Examples

  • See also his pyrophone, which I still think is his coolest creation aside from perhaps GuitarBot

    Eric and his Sonic Banana 2005

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