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AEolian Harp, an instrument made by stretching catgut strings over a thin piece of wood generally shaped like a box; this is placed in a window (opened sufficiently to admit it), and the wind passing over the strings produces a succession of beautiful sounds...
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This Encyclopedia is made up of information from the late 1800s. when the British Empire was at its height, before airplane travel, before automobiles were common and before the western world had been battered by two world wars.