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har⋅mon⋅i⋅ca

  [hahr-mon-i-kuh]
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–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
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har·mon·i·ca   (här-mŏn'ĭ-kə)   
n.   Music

  1. A small rectangular instrument consisting of a row of free reeds set back in air holes, played by exhaling or inhaling. Also called mouth harp, mouth organ; also called regionally French harp.

  2. A glass harmonica.

  3. An instrument consisting of tuned strips of metal or glass fixed to a frame and struck with a hammer.


[Alteration of obsolete armonica, glass harmonica, from Italian, feminine of armonico, harmonious, from Latin harmonicus, harmonic; see harmonic.]
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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).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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