Brewer's: Eolian

An Eolian harp. A box fitted with strings, like a fiddle. The strings, however, are not sounded by a bow, but by a current of air or wind passing over them.

Awake, Eolian harp, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings.

Gray: Progress of Poetry, lines 1, 2.

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