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Aeolian harp

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  1. 1
    An open box over which strings are stretched that sound when the wind passes over them.

    "1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter III, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt […] the noise made by the beating of the waves on the land and the sighing of the wind amongst the pendulous leaves—or rather pendant fringe of the casuarina or she-oak, those aeolian harps of the Australian bush, almost drowned their voices."

  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of Aeolian harp. alt-of
  3. 3
    a harp having strings tuned in unison; they sound when wind passes over them wordnet

Etymology

Refers to Aeolus, who in Greek mythology was said to control the winds.

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