aeolian harp

See also: æolian harp

English

An oak aeolian harp.

Alternative forms

• æolian harp

Noun

aeolian harp (plural aeolian harps)

1. (music) 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, [1]

     […] 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.

Synonyms

• wind harp

Translations

type of harp

• Bulgarian: еолова арфа f (eolova arfa)
• Chinese: 风弦琴
• Dutch: aeolusharp f
• Esperanto: eolharpo
• Finnish: tuulikannel (fi), aioloksenharppu
• French: harpe éolienne (fr) f, harpe à vent f, harpe d’Éole f, éoli-harpe (fr) f (archaic), éole-harpe f (archaic), harpe éolique (fr) f (rare)
• German: Äolsharfe (de) f
• Hungarian: aeolhárfa (hu)
• Icelandic: vindharpa f
• Irish: cláirseach Aeólach f
• Italian: arpa eolia f
• Japanese: エオリアン・ハープ
• Macedonian: eолска харфа f (eolska harfa)
• Polish: harfa eolska f
• Portuguese: harpa eólica f
• Russian: эо́лова а́рфа (ru) f (eólova árfa)
• Spanish: arpa eólica (es) f
• Ukrainian: еолова арфа (uk) f (eolova arfa)

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of chordophones