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hydraulophone

hydraulophone noun: any of several musical instruments that employ the movement of water rather than air.

Noun

hydraulophone (plural hydraulophones)

  1. Any of several musical instruments that employ the movement of water rather than air.
    • Straying from classical music, there is Steve Mann's hydraulophone (which, even if not quite a match for a Silbermann organ, is great fun on a summer day): […]2007 May 17, "aleksios" (username), "Re: music with unconventional instruments", in rec.music.classical and alt.music, Usenet
    • The creation of a novel instrument called the hydraulophone, whose sound production is created using water as a medium2008, Richard Kronland-Martinet, Solvi Ystad, Kristoffer Jensen, Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval: Sense of Sounds

Forms of hydraulophone

pluralhydraulophones

Origin of hydraulophone

See hydraulic and -phone.

Questions about hydraulophone

What does hydraulophone mean?
Hydraulophone means any of several musical instruments that employ the movement of water rather than air.
What part of speech is hydraulophone?
Hydraulophone is a noun.
What is the plural of hydraulophone?
The plural of hydraulophone is hydraulophones.

Words near hydraulophone in the dictionary

  1. hydraulicons
  2. hydraulics
  3. hydraulis
  4. hydraulist
  5. hydraulists
  6. hydraulophone
  7. hydraulophones
  8. hydraulus
  9. hydrazide
  10. hydrazide hydrazone
  11. hydrazide hydrazones

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