typophone

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Pronunciation

/ˈtaɪpəˌfoʊn/

Definition of typophone

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

A musical keyboard instrument that produces sound by striking tuned brass rods that are coupled to a spruce soundboard. It was a precursor to the celesta.

“The conductors of the Revue et Gazette Musicale have given another concert at their establishment, a performance on the typophone being one of the chief attractions in the programme.”
“It seems that Mustel’s celesta was inspired by an instrument he (or his father Victor) constructed some twenty years earlier, known as the typophone (or dulcitone).”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

From Greek τύπος (týpos) + Greek φωνή (foní), equivalent to typo- + -phone.

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