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[hahr-mon-i-kuh] 
–noun
| 1. | Also called mouth organ. a musical wind instrument consisting of a small rectangular case containing a set of metal reeds connected to a row of holes, over which the player places the mouth and exhales and inhales to produce the tones. |
| 2. | any of various percussion instruments that use graduated bars of metal or other hard material as sounding elements. |
Origin:
n. use of fem. of L harmonicus harmonic; in the form armonica (< It < L) applied by Benjamin Franklin in 1762 to a set of musical glasses; later used of other instruments
n. use of fem. of L harmonicus harmonic; in the form armonica (< It < L) applied by Benjamin Franklin in 1762 to a set of musical glasses; later used of other instruments
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| har·mon·i·ca (här-mŏn'ĭ-kə) n. Music
[Alteration of obsolete armonica, glass harmonica, from Italian, feminine of armonico, harmonious, from Latin harmonicus, harmonic; see harmonic.] |
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Harmonica
Har*mon"i*ca\, n. [Fem. fr. L. harmonicus harmonic. See Harmonic, n. ]1. A musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give forth the tones. 2. A toy instrument of strips of glass or metal hung on two tapes, and struck with hammers.
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Language Translation for : Harmonica
Spanish:
armónica,
German:
die Mundharmonika,
Japanese:
ハーモニカ
harmonica
1762, coined by Ben Franklin as the name for a glass harmonica, from L. fem. of harmonicus (see harmonic); modern sense of "mouth organ" is 1873, Amer.Eng., earlier harmonicon (1825).
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