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lagerphones

lagerphones is the plural of lagerphone.

Meaning of lagerphone

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

Questions about lagerphones

What is lagerphones the plural of?
Lagerphones is the plural of lagerphone.

Words near lagerphones in the dictionary

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

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