What's the difference between harmonica and harmonicon?

Harmonica


Definition:

  • (n.) A musical instrument, consisting of a series of hemispherical glasses which, by touching the edges with the dampened finger, give forth the tones.
  • (n.) A toy instrument of strips of glass or metal hung on two tapes, and struck with hammers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sting is sitting on a bar stool in a white T-shirt and grey camouflage-patterned combat trousers, playing a harmonica.
  • (2) There are banjos and harmonicas, songs harking back to the old-time tunes she grew up listening to in Golden, Texas (population: 600).
  • (3) With those shades and that blank expression he communicated something far more menacing to middle-class America than the curly haired man with the harmonica.
  • (4) After passing on that, and the Bob Dylan 1999 tour harmonica ($2,000), I stop at the shrine to Elliott Smith.
  • (5) You can sort of tell from Who Are You – which from its harmonica intro and ponderous gait sounds like Dylan blowing his harp through the Smiths' How Soon Is Now – that Cox doesn't move like Jagger, but more like Morrissey.
  • (6) In March, 2004, these included a harmonica, two bracelets, a ring, a framed picture of a girl dancing on the brow of a hill and the reminder from a packet of Swan rolling papers that prompted Drake to call his first album Five Leaves Left.
  • (7) You keep expecting the song, usually just played with piano and the occasional harmonica, to reach a dramatic climax, but instead it fades away.
  • (8) Middleton will host a final local health summit on his last working day this Friday, at the vast Balaji Hindu temple in Tividale , before heading off for retirement, when he hopes to have more time for his other great passion, the blues harmonica.
  • (9) "When I heard Goodnight Irene by Leadbelly, with Sonny Terry on harmonica, that was it.
  • (10) Papers have been withheld from Chaplin's MI5 file to protect the names of informants though there are unexplained, probably inconsequential, references to Jimmy Reid, the communist Scottish trade unionist; Larry Adler, the harmonica virtuoso who left his native US where he was branded a communist and blacklisted; and Humphrey Lyttelton, the Eton-educated jazz musician who once described himself a "romantic socialist".

Harmonicon


Definition:

  • (n.) A small, flat, wind instrument of music, in which the notes are produced by the vibration of free metallic reeds.

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