lithophone
nounEtymology From litho- + -phone.
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Any musical instrument in which sound is produced by percussion of a stone.
- Lithophones are the oldest of the bar idiophones. We have already mentioned the ten note neolithic lithophone from Vietnam, but such instruments have died out.1970, Musical instruments: handbook to the Museum's collection, Horniman Museum, →OCLC, page 25:
- A third line of evidence—the production of sound using the natural rock as lithophones—is, like the two just discussed, geographically widespread, covering all continents except perhaps Antarctica.2018, Bruno David, The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art:
- It is needless to dwell on the utility of the lithophone for finding vesical calculi and small fragments after lithotrity. The instrument in figured in Le Progrés Medica, 3 April, 1880.1880, Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery, volume 26, page 126:
- Ogston of Aberdeen, has invented and advertised in the Lancet a new instrument which is termed a " lithophone," and is to enable surgeons to hear a stone in the bladder.1885, Edinburgh Medical Journal, volume 30, number 1, page 191:
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- Mr James M'Kenzie Davidson, M.B., C.M., with the assistance of Processor Alex. Ogston of Aberdeen, has invented and advertised in the Lancet a new instrument which is termed a "lithophone," and is to enable surgeons to hear a stone in the bladder.1885 August, Edinburgh Medical Journal, volume 30, number 1, page 191: