Adorn a men’to (It.)

A grace. Adquis‘ta or adsum’ta (vox) (Lat, “the added tone.”) The lowest tone of the scale, the Pros lamb a nom’enos. #erophon, See Harmonium. olharmon‘ica, See Seraphine. olian attachment. An attachment toa pfte. for directing a current of ait against the strings, reinforcing their vibration and thus prolonging and sustaining the tones... Zvlan harp or lyre, (Ger. A’olsharfe, Wind's, Wet» 10 ZOLINA—AGGII ters ot Gei’sterharfe s Fr. harpe éoliw enne, harpe d Eole; it, ae pad Bolo) A stringed instr. sounded by the wind. It consists of a narrow, oblong wooden resonance-box, acro the low bridges at either end of which are stretched gut strings in say ences number and of different thickne and tension, but all Producing the same fundamental tone, When adjusted in an appropriate aperture, like a window through which the air pa es freely, the latter causes the strings to vibrate and to produce, if the tension be properly adjusted (rather slack than otherwise), full chords com‘posed of the harmonics of the fundamental tone common to all the strings; and rising, according to the force of the wind, from pure, dreamy, deliciously vague harmonies to a plaintive wail or a thrilling forte... Bolian mode, see Greck music... Bolian piano,’ see Aolsklavier. olina, 1. A small instr. consisting of a graduated series of free reeds set in a metal plate and blown by the mouth; favented by the, Me rs he at stone in 1829. As the first practical attempt to use free reeds in this way, it may be regarded as the precursor of the accordion and melodion. The Germans, however, claim the invention for Eschenbach, of Hamburg, about 1800,—2. An organ-stop constructed on the same principle as the above, without (or with very short) pipe-bodies, and of very soft tone. olo’dicon, A keyboard instr. embodying the principle of the Holina, and the direct precursor of the harmonium. (Also olodion, Klaviéol'ne, etc.)...A further modification was the olomelo'dicon, invented by Prof. Hoffmann of Warsaw about 1825, in which short bra tubes were added to the reeds. olopan talon: An olomelodicon combined with a pfte., constructed about 1830 by Dlugosz of Warsaw.