a musical instrument recently constructed by Alexandre de Paris. It has a key-board, like a pianoforte, and the sounds (which resemble those of organ-pipes) are produced by thin plates of metal, fixed at one end and free at the other, and which are caused to vibrate by means of a current of air from bellows. It is so constructed as to play either legato or staccato passages, and can swell or diminish the sounds at pleasure. Many years ago an instrument of the very same kind, called an Eolodicon, was invented by Eschenbach, and constructed by Voigt, a musical-instrument maker at Schweinfurt in Franconia. It was a handsome-looking instrument, and easily transportable, weighing only about 150 pounds. Its tones were beautiful, and it had the great advantage of never getting out of tune. The Eolophone is an instrument of a similar kind.