"hydraulophone" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "See hydraulic and -phone.",
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          "ref": "2007 May 17, \"aleksios\" (username), \"Re: music with unconventional instruments\", in rec.music.classical and alt.music, Usenet",
          "text": "Straying from classical music, there is Steve Mann's hydraulophone (which, even if not quite a match for a Silbermann organ, is great fun on a summer day): […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Richard Kronland-Martinet, Solvi Ystad, Kristoffer Jensen, Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval: Sense of Sounds:",
          "text": "The creation of a novel instrument called the hydraulophone, whose sound production is created using water as a medium",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, David Gildiner, “The Hydaulophone: Music from water”, in Imagine: Early Childhood Music Therapy:",
          "text": "At the core of the Hydraulophone is the idea to create a new tool that encourages children to discover their sense",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Steve Mann, ACOUSTIC, HYPERACOUSTIC, OR ELECTRICALLY AMPLIFIED HYDRAULOPHONES OR MULTIMEDIA INTERFACES, US Patent http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2009/0241753.html:",
          "text": "On professional hydraulophones for concert performance, the water jets are often arranged like the keys on a piano, and the instrument is played by pressing down on one or more of the water jets, one for each tone of a diatonic or chromatic scale.",
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        "Any of several musical instruments that employ the movement of water rather than air."
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        [
          "air",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(music) Any of several musical instruments that employ the movement of water rather than air."
      ],
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        "entertainment",
        "lifestyle",
        "music"
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  "etymology_text": "See hydraulic and -phone.",
  "forms": [
    {
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      "tags": [
        "plural"
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          "ref": "2007 May 17, \"aleksios\" (username), \"Re: music with unconventional instruments\", in rec.music.classical and alt.music, Usenet",
          "text": "Straying from classical music, there is Steve Mann's hydraulophone (which, even if not quite a match for a Silbermann organ, is great fun on a summer day): […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Richard Kronland-Martinet, Solvi Ystad, Kristoffer Jensen, Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval: Sense of Sounds:",
          "text": "The creation of a novel instrument called the hydraulophone, whose sound production is created using water as a medium",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, David Gildiner, “The Hydaulophone: Music from water”, in Imagine: Early Childhood Music Therapy:",
          "text": "At the core of the Hydraulophone is the idea to create a new tool that encourages children to discover their sense",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Steve Mann, ACOUSTIC, HYPERACOUSTIC, OR ELECTRICALLY AMPLIFIED HYDRAULOPHONES OR MULTIMEDIA INTERFACES, US Patent http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2009/0241753.html:",
          "text": "On professional hydraulophones for concert performance, the water jets are often arranged like the keys on a piano, and the instrument is played by pressing down on one or more of the water jets, one for each tone of a diatonic or chromatic scale.",
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      ],
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