harmonicon

The music which produced the miraculous effect was that of Kouei, the Orpheus of the Chinese, whose performance on the king, a kind of harmonicon constructed of slabs of sonorous stone, would draw wild animals around him and make them subservient to his will.

Brave Men and Women Fuller, O E 1884

The music which produced the miraculous effect was that of Kouei, the Orpheus of the Chinese, whose performance on the _king_, a kind of harmonicon constructed of slabs of sonorous stone, would draw wild animals around him and make them subservient to his will.

Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs 1867

Redwood thought that over, and decided that his son might best begin with a very pure-sounding harmonicon of one octave, to which afterwards there could be an extension.

The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth Herbert George 2004

In the breath of the wind these slips, with all their notes varied like those of a harmonicon, gave forth a most melancholy murmuring.

Robur the Conqueror 2003

Charles Augustus, she selected an harmonicon, and toys for the other three Howes.

Elsie Marley, Honey Joslyn Gray

The metal harmonicon is known in Javanese language as the _gambang_, and I have no better name to propose.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various

Exposition is a wooden harmonicon with twenty bars, and seven bronze harmonicons with bars varying greatly in size and shape, and consequently in tone, and in number from eight to twenty-one in an instrument.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various

After marching solemnly round the idol three times this individual seated himself tailor-fashion before it, laid the instrument on his knees, and began to hammer upon it with a couple of sticks; whereupon we became aware that he was playing upon a rude imitation of a child's harmonicon, the keys of which appeared to be constructed of hard wood, out of which he managed to beat a very fair specimen of barbaric music.

The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron Harry Collingwood 1886

The horns, drums, and harmonicon now broke forth afresh into a hideous clamour, which, however, was powerless to drown the dismal shrieks of the victim; and the fetish-man, arming himself with a large broad-bladed and most murderous-looking knife, began to dance slowly, with most extraordinary contortions of visage and body, round the idol.

The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron Harry Collingwood 1886

A pause of perhaps a couple of minutes ensued, and then horns, drums, and harmonicon suddenly burst out with a loud confused fantasia, each man apparently doing his utmost to drown the noise of the others.

The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron Harry Collingwood 1886