Lexicographical Neighbors of Dichord
Literary usage of Dichord
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music by Hermann von Helmholtz (1912)
"I had a dichord, that is, a double monochord, constructed with wires ... On my
dichord I found it impossible to take less than a semitone of 100 cents with ..."
2. Manual of Mental and Physical Tests: A Book of Directions Compiled with by Guy Montrose Whipple, ( (1914)
"The sonometer (monochord or dichord) employed by Wissler (16) and Spearman (9)
is rather unwieldy, not always constant in pitch and tone-color, ..."
3. University Musical Encyclopedia by Louis Charles Elson (1912)
"B. Sadler's Wells, Sept. 8, 1813; son of Charles and grandson of CHARLES; d.
May 6, 1866, Edinburgh. dichord. Two stringed instrument ..."
4. On the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Irish by Eugene O'Curry (1873)
"The Nofre was a kind of guitar, generally mounted with two chords, hence the name
of dichord, given to it by Clement of Alexandria ; it sometimes had only ..."
5. The Biblical Repository and Classical Review. by American Biblical Repository (1837)
"It is a kind of dichord guitar, corresponding in shape and size as near as can
be judged, to number seven of Pfeiffer,1 excepting that the globe or sounding ..."
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