Bigophone

Quick meaning: Bigophone is a noun meaning (music) Any of a series of cheap musical instruments, made to resemble orchestral instruments, that were blown in the manner of a kazoo.

Meaning

(music) Any of a series of cheap musical instruments, made to resemble orchestral instruments, that were blown in the manner of a kazoo.

Example Sentences

Elsewhere, professionals could enthuse over new precision instruments capable, for instance, of measuring weights down to a tenth of a milligram, or over a host of self-registering thermometers and barometers, microscopes, typewriters, calculators and all sorts of technical and musical devices, including automatic concertinas, edeophones, auto-harps, bigophones and other long-forgotten objects.

Word Forms

• bigophones

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