wind harp

American  

[wind] / wɪnd /

noun

1. aeolian harp.

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wind harp British  

/ wɪnd /

noun

1. a less common name for aeolian harp

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Etymology

Origin of wind harp

First recorded in 1805–15

Example Sentences

In fact, on 1976's Dis, Eicher did actually record him playing against a Norwegian fjord – you can hear Garbarek blowing into a wind harp as the North Sea laps in the background.

From The Guardian • Nov. 14, 2012

The purpose that was in them broke into a wild war-music, as the wind harp swells and screams under the breath of the storm.

From English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4 by Froude, James Anthony

Myra found the Prince and his attendants engaged in fixing the wind harp outside her casement.

From The Village of Youth and Other Fairy Tales by Hatton, Bessie

The wind harp was there, too, and as Phil, with closed eyes, was resting in the half-twilight made by shut blinds, there came from it a little murmur, which grew into a long, sad monotone.

From Prince Lazybones and Other Stories By Mrs. W. J. Hays by Hays, Helen Ashe

What Ware had said about the hills of his youth, the woods, the word tamarack that he had dropped carelessly, touched chords of memory as lightly as a breeze vibrates a wind harp.

From A Hoosier Chronicle by Yohn, F. C. (Frederick Coffay)