dulcitone

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A keyboard instrument in which sound is produced by a range of tuning forks, which vibrate when struck by felt-covered hammers activated by the keyboard.
    — It would be pleasing could I record the acquirement of dulcitones for these or the regular classes, especially the kindergartens—the dulcitone being the new instrument mentioned in my report of last year—but perhaps they will come in the near future.

词形变化

dulcitones plural

词源

Coined by Thomas Machell, the instrument’s inventor, in 1888, from Latin dulcis (“sweet”) + tonus (“tone”).
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