. . "A lamellophone (also lamellaphone or linguaphone, from the Latin root lingua meaning \"tongue\", i.e., a long thin plate that is fixed only at one end) is any of a family of musical instruments.The name comes from the Latin word \"lamella\" for \"plate\" and the Greek root \"phonos\" for \"sound\". The name derives from the way the sound is produced: the instrument has a series of thin plates, or \"tongues\", each of which is fixed at one end and has the other end free."@en .