lamellophone

noun

la·mel·lo·phone | \ lə-ˈme-lə-ˌfōn

How to pronounce lamellophone (audio)

\

variants: or less commonly lamellaphone

plural lamellophones also lamellaphones

Definition of lamellophone

: any of a class of musical instruments (such as the mbira, Jew’s harp, or music box) whose sound is generated by plucking flexible tuned tongues of metal, wood, cane, or other material attached at one end to a small board or resonator and plucked with the thumbs or fingers or activated mechanically

— called also linguaphone, thumb piano

— compare aerophone, chordophone, electrophone, idiophone, membranophone

Keep scrolling for more

Learn More about lamellophone

Dictionary Entries near lamellophone

Statistics for lamellophone

Look-up Popularity

Time Traveler for lamellophone

The first known use of lamellophone was in 1979

See more words from the same year

Comments on lamellophone

What made you want to look up lamellophone? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible).

WORD OF THE DAY

gritty

showing courage and determination

Test Your Vocabulary

Words for Summer: A Quiz

Which of the following words means “of or relating to summer”?

Can you spell these 10 commonly misspelled words?

TAKE THE QUIZ

Test Your Knowledge - and learn some interesting things along the way.

TAKE THE QUIZ