typophoneとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Greek τύπος (týpos) + Greek φωνή (foní), equivalent to typo- +‎ -phone.

発音

IPA: /ˈtaɪpəˌfoʊn/

名詞

typophone (plural typophones)

1. A musical keyboard instrument that produces sound by striking tuned brass rods that are coupled to a spruce soundboard. It was a precursor to the celesta.
   • 1870 April 23, Watson's Weekly Art Journal, volume XII, number 25, page 187:

     The conductors of the Revue et Gazette Musicale have given another concert at their establishment, a performance on the typophone being one of the chief attractions in the programme.

   • 1992, James Blades, Percussion Instruments and Their History, illustrated, reprint, revised edition, Bold Strummer, page 311:

     It seems that Mustel’s celesta was inspired by an instrument he (or his father Victor) constructed some twenty years earlier, known as the typophone (or dulcitone).