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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A musical instrument in which, while it has strings and a keyboard, like the pianoforte, the tones are produced from the strings by pressing them, by means of the digitals, against a revolving cylinder of india-rubber covered with rosin. Compare harmonichord, hurdy-gurdy, and keyed violin (under keyed).
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