AEOLIAN See also:

• HARP (Fr. harpe; Ger. Harfe; Ital. arpa)

HARP (Fr. harpe eolienne; Ger. Aolsharfe, Windharfe; Ital. arpa d' Eolo)  , a stringed musical See also:

• INSTRUMENT (Lat. instrumentum, from insincere, to build up, furnish, arrange, prepare)

instrument, whose name is derived from See also:

• AEOLUS

Aeolus, See also:

• GOD

god of the See also:

• WIND
• WIND (a common Teut. word, cognate with Skt. vats, Lat. ventus, cf. " weather," to be of course distinguished from to " wind," to coil or twist, O.Eng. windan, cf. "wander," "wend," &c.)

wind . The aeolian See also:

• HARP (Fr. harpe; Ger. Harfe; Ital. arpa)

harp consists of a See also:

• SOUND
• SOUND, THE (Danish Oresund)

sound-See also:

• BOX
• BOX (Gr. irl or, Lat. buxus, box-wood; cf. 2r6Eir, a pyx)

box about 3 ft. See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long, 5 in. wide, and 3 in. deep, made of thin See also:

• DEAL

deal, or preferably of See also:

• PINE (Lat. Pinus, Gr. srlrur)

pine, and having See also:

• BEECH

beech ends to hold the tuning-pins and hitch-pins . A dozen or less See also:

• CATGUT

catgut strings of different thickness, but tuned in exact unison, and See also:

• LEFT

left rather slack, are attached to the pins, and stretched over two narrow See also:

• BRIDGES
• BRIDGES, ROBERT (1844– )

bridges of hard See also:

• WOOD, ANTHONY A2 (1632-1695)
• WOOD, JOHN GEORGE (1827—1889)
• WOOD, MRS HENRY [ELLEN] (1814—1887)
• WOOD, SEARLES VALENTINE (1798—188o)

wood, one at each end of the sound-See also:

• BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board, which is generally provided with two See also:

• ROSE
• ROSE (Rosa)
• ROSE, GEORGE (1744-1818)
• ROSE, HUGH JAMES (1795—1838)
• ROSE, WILLIAM STEWART (1775-1843)

rose sound-holes . To ensure a proper passage for the wind, another pine board is placed over the strings, resting on pegs at the ends of the sound-board, or on a continuation of the ends raised from r to 3 in. above the strings . See also:

• KAUFMANN, CONSTANTINE PETROVICH (1818-1882)

Kaufmann of See also:

• DRESDEN

Dresden and Heinrich Christoph See also:

• KOCH
• KOCH, ROBERT (1843–1910)

Koch, who improved the aeolian harp, introduced this contrivance, which was called by them Windfang and Windfliigel; the upper board was prolonged beyond the sound-box in the shape of a See also:

• FUNNEL (through an O. Fr. founil, found in Breton, from Lat. infundibulum, that through which anything is poured, from fundere, to pour)

funnel, in See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order to See also:

• DIRECT

direct the current of See also:

• AIR (from an Indo-European root meaning " breathe," " blow ")
• AIR, or ASBEN

air on to the strings . The aeolian harp is placed across a window so that the wind blows obliquely across the strings, causing them to vibrate in See also:

• ALIQUOT (a Lat. word meaning " some," " so many ")

aliquot parts, i.e . (the fundamental See also:

• NOTE
• NOTE (Lat. nota, mark, sign, from noscere, to know)

note not being heard) the See also:

• HALF

half or See also:

• OCTAVE (from Lat. octavus, eighth, octo, eight)

octave, the third or See also:

• INTERVAL

interval of the twelfth, the second octave, and the third above it, in fact the upper partials of the strings in See also:

• REGULAR

regular See also:

• SUCCESSION (Lat. successio, from succedere, to follow after)

succession . With the increased pressure of the wind, the dissonances of the 11th and 13th overtones are heard in shrill discords, only to give See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place to beautiful harmonies as the force of the wind abates . The principle of the natural vibration of strings by the pressure of the wind was recognized in See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient times; See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

King See also:

• DAVID
• DAVID (a Hebrew name meaning probably beloved 1)
• DAVID, FELICIEN (1810—1876)
• DAVID, GERARD [GHEERAERT DAVIT], (?=1523)
• DAVID, PIERRE JEAN (1789–1856)
• DAVID, ST (Dewi, Sant)

David, we hear from the Rabbinic records, used to hang his See also:

• KINNOR (Gr. tctvitpa)

kinnor (kithara) over his See also:

• BED
• BED (a common Teutonic word, cf. German Bett, probably connected with the Indo-European root bhodh, seen in the Lat. fodere, to dig; so " a dug-out place " for safe resting, or in the same sense as a garden " bed ")

bed at See also:

• NIGHT

night, when it sounded in the midnight See also:

• BREEZE

breeze . The same is related of St See also:

• DUNSTAN, SAINT (924 or 925-g88)

Dunstan of See also:

• CANTERBURY
• CANTERBURY, CHARLES

Canterbury, who was in consequence charged with sorcery . The See also:

• CHINESE, JAPANESE AND

Chinese at the See also:

• PRESENT

present See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day See also:

• FLY (formed on the root of the supposed original Tent. fleugan, to fly)

fly kites of various sizes, having strings stretched across apertures in the See also:

• PAPER
• PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

paper, which produces the effect of an aerial See also:

• CHORUS (Gr. xopbs)Z

chorus . See See also:

• ATHANASIUS (293-373)

Athanasius See also:

• KIRCHER, ATHANASIUS (r6oi-168o)

Kircher, Musurgia Universalis, where the aeolian harp is first described (1602-1608), p .

148; See also:

• MATHEW, THEOBALD (1790-1856)

Mathew See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

Young, See also:

• BISHOP (A.S. bisceop, from Lat. episcopus, Gr. irio-Korros, " overlooker " or " overseer ")
• BISHOP, ISABELLA (1832-1904)
• BISHOP, SIR HENRY ROWLEY (1786-1855)

Bishop of Clonfert, Enquiry into the See also:

• PRINCIPAL

Principal Phenomena of Sounds and Musical Strings, pp . 17o-182 (See also:

• LONDON

London, 1784); See also:

• GOTTINGEN

Gottingen See also:

• POCKET

Pocket See also:

• CALENDAR

Calendar (1792) ; Mendel's Musikalisches Conversations-Lexikon, See also:

• ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article " Aeolsharfe." An See also:

• ILLUSTRATION

illustration is given in See also:

• REES, THOMAS (1777–1864)

Rees' Encyclopedia, plates, vol. ii . Misc. pl. See also:

• XXV

xxv . (K .