English Explanatory Dictionary

dulcitone

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A keyboard instrument in which sound is produced by a range of tuning forks, which vibrate when struck by felt-covered hammers activated by the keyboard.

Word forms

dulcitone dulcitones

Etymology

Coined by Thomas Machell, the instrument’s inventor, in 1888, from Latin dulcis (“sweet”) + tonus (“tone”).

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