luminaphone

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Latin lūmen (light) +‎ -phone

Noun[edit]

luminaphone (plural luminaphones)

  1. (music, historical) A kind of organ whose keys project light beams through perforated revolving disks onto selenium cells in order to produce electrical vibrations that generate the sound.