Meanings
- not comparableentertainmentHaving a vibrating reed that is an integral part of the instrument.
Further north, in rural Lithuania, a folk clarinet has a cylindrical tube closed at the top, with idioglot reed taken in the player's mouth for its entire length.
1975, Sibyl Marcuse, A survey of musical instruments, page 7292 more examples
Pipes with idioglot reeds (not separate pieces of cane, but cut in the tube itself) have been identified from later civilisations, for example the Greek aulos and the Sardinian launeddas.
1995, Colin James Lawson, The Cambridge Companion to the Clarinet, →ISBN, page 2Alongside the clarinet of today, idioglot instruments are still played in many European countries, along the Baltic and in the Balkans, as well as Asia, Africa and South America.
2008, Eric Hoeprich, The Clarinet, →ISBN, page 13
plural idioglots
- entertainmentAn idioglot instrument.
Masa (tongs) -an idioglot with a sound-rhythmical effect and with a secondary musical function; made of iron.
1987, The World of Music - Volume 29, page 692 more examples
These simple instruments (idioglots) still found in Syria, Crete, Turkmenistan amongst others are also used by children who have a good supply of reeds nearby.
1988, Eric Montbel, Le Roseau et la musique, page 78The single reed iterations were often idioglots because of the simple structural design required to produce such a sound generator.
2016, Michael J. Pagliaro, Basic Elements of Music, →ISBN, page 88 - A person who speaks an idiolect.
For some reason it is the destiny of Richard Tull, to be surrounded by ideoglots. Idioglots, with their idiolects.
1995, Martin Amis, The Information, →ISBN2 more examples
In a case quoted by Romanes, the reference to which we give later, a child aged 4½ years was the subject of idioglossia, but her younger brother was able to converse with her in her own idioglot language, although he also talked childish English.
1891, W. Hale White, C.H. Golding-Bird, “Two Cases of Idioglossia, with Phonographic Demonstration of the Peculiarity of Speech”, in Medico-chirurgical transactions, volume 74I achieve this effect somewhat reliably when I suppress the internal dialogue of self-absorptive self-consciousness and communicate using pidgin English. I am an idioglot using a personalised idiolect.
2009, B Geary, “Essential tropical emergency medicine skills”, in Emergency Medicine Journal, volume 26, number 6
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