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  • noun Plural form of aerophone.

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Examples

  • His instruments, which were wireless telephones -- aerophones he called them -- were to be made in pairs, twins that should talk only to each other.

    Stella Fregelius Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • Thus it came about that through most of the short hours of winter daylight Morris and Stella found themselves at their respective positions, corresponding, or trying to correspond, through the aerophones.

    Stella Fregelius Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • In order to test the aerophones fully in this rough weather, Morris and Stella had agreed to read to each other alternate verses from the Book of Job, beginning at the thirty-eighth chapter.

    Stella Fregelius Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • Now that she had procured some suitable clothes the young lady was distinctly good looking; she was remarkably intelligent and well-read; she sang, as Stephen Layard had said, "like an angel"; she took a most enlightened interest in aerophones and their possibilities; she proved a very useful assistant in various experiments; and made one or two valuable suggestions.

    Stella Fregelius Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • The basic instrument types, or classifications, are aerophones (which generate sound through the vibration of air), chordophones (through the vibration of strings), membranophones

    NYC.com's Exclusive New York City Event Calendar : Art 2009

  • The basic instrument types, or classifications, are aerophones (which generate sound through the vibration of air), chordophones (through the vibration of strings), membranophones

    NYC.com's Exclusive New York City Event Calendar : Art 2009

  • The basic instrument types, or classifications, are aerophones (which generate sound through the vibration of air), chordophones (through the vibration of strings), membranophones

    NYC.com's Exclusive New York City Event Calendar : Art 2009

  • It was you who grew away from me, not me from you, when you took to studying mysticism and aerophones, and were repelled by all women, myself included. "

    Stella Fregelius Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • No, not the aerophones, they are right enough I believe, but all the rest of it. "

    Stella Fregelius Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • "What interests me more than our host's matrimonial engagements, however, are his experiments with aerophones.

    Stella Fregelius Henry Rider Haggard 1890

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