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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A keyboard instrument in which sound is produced by a range of tuning forks, which vibrate when struck by felt-covered hammers activated by the keyboard.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Coined by Thomas Machell, the instrument’s inventor, in 1888, from Latin dulcis (“sweet”) + tonus (“tone”).
