aeolina

A small and simple instrument, seotana (e-6-ta'-na) Grk. n. A very small wind instrument made probably the germ of the accordion of seven short reeds or thin strips of and concertina, was invented by metal fastened in a frame and played Me rs. Wheat stone about 1829. It upon by the breath of the player. consisted of a graduated series of free Perhaps the forerunner of the modern reeds, that is, thin pieces of metal fixed Jew's-harp. into a metal plate at one end and set in motion by being blown by the Aequal (a-kwal') A German wordGer.derived n. from the mouth like a mouth organ. Each reed Latin, meaning "8-ft." The term is was furnished with a separate a per generally applied to organ stops and ture in the metal plate for supplying signifies all those usually designated wind, and simple melodies could be as eight feet. This indicates that played by moving the instrument eight feet is the length of the longest backward and forward before the pipe in the stop, hence the one having mouth. the lowest pitch. Its length gives it aeolodion (also aeolodicon) a pitch of two octaves below middle A keyboard instrument embodying C and the other pipes of the stop the principle of the aeolina and the gradually ascend in pitch through the direct forerunner of the harmonium. compa of the keyboard nearly five Most authorities attribute this invenoctaves. Stops of this pitch are the tion to J. T. Eschenbach of Hamburg principal or foundation stops of the who is said to have first made the organ and the others are tuned from aeolodion in 1800. The tone is pro them, duced by steel springs or a graduated aequivagans (e-kwi-va'-gans) Lat. adj. series of thin metal plates set in mo- Literally, wandering equally: hence tion by a current of air supplied by applied to pa ages in which all the bellows, or according to some author i parts deviate from the natural order ties, struck by hammers set in motion at the same time, as when in all the by the keyboard. It had a compa of parts, simultaneously, a naturally unsix octaves and its tone was similar to accented syllable receives the accent that of the harmonium or cabinet or instead of the accented syllable to gan, which followed it. Equivalent to which it is tied following it. Simul the German, Windharmonika. Obsotaneous syncopation. lete, aeolomelodicon sere recurvo (e'-re re-kur'-vo) Lat. A Roman horn resembling the trum- An instrument invented by Profespet. The same as bucina. sor Hoffmann of Warsaw in 1825 and serophon constructed by Brunner of that city. A French reed instrument of the Like the aeolodicon, it was a wind in melodion cla , that is, one having strument played with a keyboard, but free vibrating reeds or thin strips of it differed from it in that bra tubes wood or metal fastened at the end were placed above the reeds, as in and set in motion by currents of air the reed stops of an organ, thus from bellows. The reeds had no greatly increasing the tone of the in tubes over them. aesthetics strument. It was probably intended as a substitute for the organ in small See esthetics, churches, especially in the accomaffabile (af-fa'-bl-le) It. adj. paniment of chorals, whence it is also Affable: kindly, pleasing, gently and called chorale on. sweetly in style of rendering music. 37 18 affabilita aggiustamente affabilita (af-fa-be-li-ta') It. n. afflitto Cast (af-flet'-to) It. past melancholy. down: sorrowful, part. Affability: cordiality in style, affabilmente (af-fa-bil-men'-te) It. adv. afflizione (af-fle-tsi-6'-ne) Affably: in a kindly, pleasing man- Affliction: sorrowfully, It. in n.an afner. flicted manner. Usually used with con affanato (af-fa-na'-to) It. adj. (with). aff anna to (af-fan-na'-to) It. adj. affret tan do (af-fret-tan'-do) It. pres. Literally, stifled: grieved, distre ed, anxious, sad. Hurrying: hastening the time, implying some excitement. Abbr. affret,