PYROPHONE
\pˌa͡ɪɹə͡ʊfˈə͡ʊn], \pˌaɪɹəʊfˈəʊn], \p_ˌaɪ_ɹ_əʊ_f_ˈəʊ_n]\
Definitions of PYROPHONE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
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A musical instrument in which the tones are produced by flames of hydrogen, or illuminating gas, burning in tubes of different sizes and lengths.
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p[=i]'r[=o]-f[=o]n, n. a musical instrument invented by Eugene Kastner (1873), in which the tones are produced by means of burning jets of hydrogen enclosed in graduated glass tubes. [Gr. pyr, fire, ph[=o]n[=e], sound.]
By Thomas Davidson
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