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lagerphone

lagerphone noun: a generally homemade percussion instrument consisting of crown cap beer bottle tops loosely nailed to a pole (often a broom handle) and a board mounted cross-ways on the pole (the head of the broom), and played by striking the pole on the ground or with a stick, by drawing the serrated stick across the pole, or by shaking the instrument.

Noun

lagerphone (plural lagerphones)

  1. (Australia) A generally homemade percussion instrument consisting of crown cap beer bottle tops loosely nailed to a pole (often a broom handle) and a board mounted cross-ways on the pole (the head of the broom), and played by striking the pole on the ground or with a stick, by drawing the serrated stick across the pole, or by shaking the instrument.
    • In Dunsan Makavejev′s film “The Coca-Cola Kid” (1984) the country band (Conways Carnival) performing “Waltzing Matilda” includes a lagerphone player who, in addition to hitting the stick against the ground strikes it with a stick swung in mock-bowing fashion.1991, Experimental Musical Instruments, Volumes 7-8, page 19
    • In its modern form the lagerphone is of Australian origin and is a percussive instrument that produces a rhythmic effect similar to that of the tambourine.2003, John Shepherd et al. (editors), “Lagerphone”, entry in Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume II: Performance and Production, page 379

Forms of lagerphone

plurallagerphones

Origin of lagerphone

From lager + -phone.

Questions about lagerphone

What does lagerphone mean?
Lagerphone means a generally homemade percussion instrument consisting of crown cap beer bottle tops loosely nailed to a pole (often a broom handle) and a board mounted cross-ways on the pole (the head of the broom), and played by striking the pole on the ground or with a stick, by drawing the serrated stick across the pole, or by shaking the instrument.
What part of speech is lagerphone?
Lagerphone is a noun.
What is the plural of lagerphone?
The plural of lagerphone is lagerphones.

Words near lagerphone in the dictionary

  1. lagerita
  2. lageritas
  3. lagerlike
  4. lagerpetid
  5. lagerpetids
  6. lagerphone
  7. lagerphones
  8. Lagerquist
  9. Lagerquists
  10. lagers
  11. lagerstannin

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