A musical instrument designed to produce and amplify harmonic sounds; a variant or type of mechanical harmonic instrument.
From Greek harmonic (harmonikos) + -phon (from phone, sound). This Greek neologism combines the concepts of harmony and sound-generation to name the instrument.
Like many 19th-century instrumental names ending in '-phon,' the harmoniphon was designed in an era when inventors believed every new acoustic discovery deserved a new instrument—most are now forgotten museum pieces.
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