aeolian harp

aeolian harp

See also: æolian harp

English

Alternative forms

• æolian harp

Noun

aeolian harp (plural aeolian harps)

1. (music) An open box over which strings are stretched that sound when the wind passes over them
   • 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter III,

     […] the noise made by the beating of the waves on the land and the sighing of the wind amongst the pendulous leaves—or rather pendant fringe of the casuarina or she-oak, those aeolian harps of the Australian bush, almost drowned their voices.

Synonyms

• wind harp

Translations

type of harp

Finnish: tuulikannel (fi) French: harpe éolienne (fr) f, harpe à vent f, harpe d'Éole f, éoli-harpe (fr) f (archaic), éole-harpe f (archaic), harpe éolique f (rare) Icelandic: vindharpa f

Irish: cláirseach Aeólach f Polish: harfa eolska f Russian: эо́лова а́рфа (ru) f (eólova árfa)

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of chordophones