"glassichord" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "1844, United States. Patent Office, Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents, page 514",
          "text": "A patent has been granted for the combination of the glassichord with the piano; and in the same connexion an improvement has been made in the tones of the glassichord itself, by a more elastic mode of suspending the strips of glass than has been before used.",
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          "text": "Amongst other phenomena, let it be remembered that the glassichord and the drum were skilfully played upon with both sticks.",
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          "ref": "1883 March, “Remarkable History of a Harvard Student”, in Facts, volume 2, number 1, page 51",
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          "ref": "1879, Horace Wemyss Smith, Life and Correspondence of the Rev. William Smith",
          "text": "He revived and improved the harmonica, or glassichord, and extended his speculations to the finer arts; showing that he could taste and criticise even the compositions of a Handel!",
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          "ref": "1962, Lubov Breit Keefer, Baltimore's Music: The Haven of the American Composer, page 19",
          "text": "Curiously, he omitted the only indigenous instrument, Franklin's glassichord.",
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          "ref": "2017, Daniel Mark Epstein, The Loyal Son: The War in Ben Franklin's House, page 88",
          "text": "His glassichord was a sensation in the intersecting spheres of art and science, capitalizing as it did upon a fad in London of playing concertos upon musical glasses.",
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          "ref": "1867, Ersilia: or, The ordeal, page 130",
          "text": "The moveless, still air acted as a glassichord on the waters, which rang under the shrill voice of the singer.",
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          "ref": "1887, William Hamilton Gibson, Happy Hunting-grounds: A Tribute to the Woods and Fields, page 119",
          "text": "Turning upon his perch , he brings to view his “glassichord,\" or shrilling organ, upon his back — a glass-like spot upon his wings just behind the thorax, or what might appear to be facetiously inclined as an exceedingly uncomfortable-looking collar.",
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          "ref": "1897, William Sloane Kennedy, In Portia's Gardens, page 220",
          "text": "Bobolink. For notes from the \"glassichord\" of fifteen bobolinks see Chapter III., near end.",
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