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  • To most persons, sound alone is considered music; to me, a night like this should not be jarred save by soft vibrations of ‘olian strings.

    Dawn Harriet A. Adams

  • Now it is obvious that such dreamy Æolian-harp-like harmonies could not have been produced without Chopin's novel and constant use of the pedal.

    Chopin and Other Musical Essays Henry Theophilus Finck 1890

  • This old house, with its sanded floors and high wainscots, and its narrow windows looking out upon a cluster of pines that turn themselves into æolian-harps every time the wind blows, would be the place in which to write a summer romance.

    Marjorie Daw, and other people 1873

  • One cannot in fact refrain from mentally comparing the _'olian

    English Men of Letters: Coleridge 1871

  • "Yes, well, like our olian _h_arp, only a deal louder, an 'far nicer.

    The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables 1859

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