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kaleidophone

(kəˈlaɪdəˌfəʊn)
n
(General Physics) an instrument, invented by Professor Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875), consisting of a light on a vibrating rod with a reflecting knob for exhibiting the effect of sound waves
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kaleidophon, kaleidophone

an instrument for the visual representation of sound waves.
See also: Instruments, Sound
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"The kalimah in the kaleidophone: Ranges of Multivocality in Bangladeshi Muslim's discourses." Ethos (1998): 229-257.
At such a juncture, who the speaker is becomes a function less of how she looks in the mirror than of how she sounds in the kaleidophone of the mind's ear.
THE ONE TWOS, THE TWO N EIGHTS, THE BRITISH KICKS, OPEN TO FIRE AND RADIO DANCERS/EMMA SCOTT PRESENTS THE KINGCRAWLERS, KING CANUTE, KARMA CORNER, KALEIDOPHONE AND THE RAINBREAKERS: O2 Academy, Horsefair, Birmingham.
The most workaday one houses a staircase that connects with the curved bridge, but the intermediate tower is a 'kaleidophone' that senses and records surrounding noise (of water, visitors, the sky) and then mixes and transmits the resulting cacophony.
Encyclopedia of Rhythms complements Schillinger's earlier work Kaleidophone. Like Kaleidophone, the Encyclopedia of Rhythms is a by-product of the Schillinger method.
Here's another cracker - a musical instrument called the kaleidophone. This waste of space was "the marriage of a violin and a plastic drainpipe" - and sounded like it.
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