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

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

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