Lithophones are the oldest of the bar idiophones. We have already mentioned the ten note neolithic lithophone from Vietnam, but such instruments have died out.
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Lithophone
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Finnish
1 entries- litofoni noun (type of musical instrument)
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1 entries- lithophone noun (type of musical instrument)
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A third line of evidence—the production of sound using the natural rock as lithophones—is, like the two just discussed, geographically widespread, covering all continents except perhaps Antarctica.
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It is needless to dwell on the utility of the lithophone for finding vesical calculi and small fragments after lithotrity. The instrument in figured in Le Progrés Medica, 3 April, 1880.
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Ogston of Aberdeen, has invented and advertised in the Lancet a new instrument which is termed a " lithophone," and is to enable surgeons to hear a stone in the bladder.
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