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Megaphones

Scope note

Hollow devices used to intensify and direct the sound of a voice, usually, though not always, taking the shape of a long cone with a small hole at one end through which the user speaks, and a much wider opening at the other from which the sound emerges.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000256833

Broader Terms used

<sound modifying devices>

Narrower Terms used

speaking trumpets

Equivalent Terms used

megaphone

Created

13yrs ago

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