Aeolian
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- noun
- /iˈoʊliən/
:
eolio
- Aeolian is a long-vanished manufacturer of pianos, player pianos, and organs.
Examples
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That was Congress's intent: to keep the Aeolian Company from having a monopoly on the then-crucial player piano roll market.
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@53 lakesidey and @52 R. Fife: Aeolian is also related to a musical church mode from the Middle Ages and classical Greek musical theory before that.
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Aeolian declared bankruptcy and disappeared in 1985.
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The immediate result was that Aeolian's competitors gained the right to make their own player piano rolls, so long as they paid the fee.
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Aeolian's competitors quickly complained to Congress about Aeolian's attempt to corner the music market.
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Aeolian's competitors quickly complained to Congress about Aeolian's attempt to corner the music market.
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Anticipating that Congress was about to overturn White-Smith, Aeolian moved swiftly to buy up song rights from musicians and publishing companies so it could copy them onto player piano rolls.
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But back in the first decade of the 20th century, when player pianos were the hot new technology, Aeolian was a dominant firm—the Microsoft (or perhaps Google) of its day.
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In fact, Leonardo da Vinci first observed VIVs some five hundred years ago, in the form of "Aeolian Tones," the sound made as wind passes over a wire of the correct diameter and tension, and in the vortices that swirl behind the piers of a bridge.
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The ancient Greeks referred to the inhabitants of the region as Aeolians.
Synonyms
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A person from Greece
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A person from Greece, often mentioned in old stories
A person from an ancient Greek group from places like Lesbos and Thessaly
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
An Aeolian was a person from Aeolis or a member of the Aeolian people. So an Aeolian simply means someone 'from' that place.