lithophone

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Any musical instrument in which sound is produced by percussion of a stone.

   “Lithophones are the oldest of the bar idiophones. We have already mentioned the ten note neolithic lithophone from Vietnam, but such instruments have died out.”

2. isim A device by which the presence of bladder stones can be audibly detected.

   “It is needless to dwell on the utility of the lithophone for finding vesical calculi and small fragments after lithotrity. The instrument in figured in Le Progrés Medica, 3 April, 1880.”

3. isim Alternative form of lithopone.

   “A sample of lithophone, one of the zinc sulphide whites examined by the author, had the following composition: […]”