aeolian harp

See also: æolian harp

English

An oak aeolian harp.

Alternative forms

• æolian harp

Etymology

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

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 (fr) 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