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symphonium

symphonium noun: a small mouth organ based on the Chinese sheng.

symphonium: a small mouth organ based on the Chinese sheng
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Noun

symphonium (plural symphoniums)

  1. A small mouth organ based on the Chinese sheng.
    • The symphonium is played by blowing into its mouth hole, which here is edged with mother-of-pearl.2015, J. Kenneth Moore, Jayson Kerr Dobney, E Bradley Strachen-Scherer, Musical Instruments: Highlights of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 121

Forms of symphonium

pluralsymphoniums
alternative formsymphonion

Origin of symphonium

Named by its inventor, Charles Wheatstone, who patented it in 1829.

Questions about symphonium

What does symphonium mean?
Symphonium means a small mouth organ based on the Chinese sheng.
What part of speech is symphonium?
Symphonium is a noun.
What is the plural of symphonium?
The plural of symphonium is symphoniums.

Words near symphonium in the dictionary

  1. symphonising
  2. symphonism
  3. symphonisms
  4. symphonist
  5. symphonists
  6. symphonium
  7. symphoniums
  8. symphonize
  9. symphonized
  10. symphonizes
  11. symphonizing

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