harmonica

Meaning

Noun

• a musical wind instrument with a series of holes for the player to blow into, each hole producing a different note
• a musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give forth the tones.
• a toy instrument of strips of glass or metal hung on two tapes, and struck with hammers.

Related

Similar words

• French harp
• gob iron
• harmonicon
• Mississippi sax
• mouth harp
• mouth organ
• tin sandwich

Origin

• From armonica, to refer to his glass harmonica, an instrument that predated the small wind instrument by several decades. harmonic.