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A complete musical sentence. The period, the present or current time, as distinguished from all other times.

or unaccountable; an extraordinary or very remarkable person, thing, or occurrence; as, a musical phenomenon.

of sounding bodies; especially, an apparatus invented by König for testing the quality of musical strings.

The act or method of grouping the notes so as to form distinct musical phrases.

A well-known musical instrument somewhat resembling the harpsichord, and consisting of a sreies of wires of graduated length, thickness, and tension, struck by hammers moved by keys. Dumb piano. See Digitorium. -- Grand piano. See under Grand. -- Square piano, one with a horizontal frame and an oblong case. -- Uprig…

A peg in musical instruments, for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.

ic, consisting of a tube or tubes of straw, reed, wood, or metal; any tube which produces musical sounds; as, a shepherd's pipe; the pipe of an organ. "Tunable as sylvan pipe." Milton. Now had he rather hear the tabor and the pipe. Shak.

Playing on a musical pipe. "Lowing herds and piping swains." Swift.

To pluck and release quickly (a musical string); to twang.

A musical instrument of ten strings.

to mark by punctured dots; as, to prick a pattern for embroidery; to prick the notes of a musical composition. Cowper.

roportion, Inverse proportion, etc. See under Continued, Inverse, etc. -- Harmonical, or Musical, proportion, a relation of three or four quantities, such that the first is to the last as the difference between the first two is to the difference between the last two; thus, 2, 3, 6, are in harmonical proportion; for 2…

To send forth, as a book, newspaper, musical piece, or other printed work, either for sale or for general distribution; to print, and issue from the press.

ing struck or beaten; played by beating or by percussion; as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument.

Ornamentation on the border of a thing; specifically, the inlaid border of a musical instrument, as a violin.

A musical instrument in which the tones are produced by flames of hydrogen, or illuminating gas, burning in tubes of different sizes and lengths.

tter or form sound with rapid or tremulous vibrations, as in singing; also, to trill on a musical instrument

The tube of a musical instrument. He touched the tender stops of various quills. Milton.

A species of musical recitation in which the words are delivered in manner resembling that of ordinary declamation; also, a piece of music intended for such recitation; -- opposed to melisma.

A musical instrument made of the hollow joint of some plant; a rustic or pastoral pipe. Arcadian pipe, the pastoral reed Of Hermes. Milton.