Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Phonoscope

Phonoscope , noun

[Phono- + -scope.]

(a)
(Physics) An instrument for observing or exhibiting the motions or properties of sounding bodies; especially, an apparatus invented by Konig for testing the quality of musical strings.
(b)
(Physics) An instrument for producing luminous figures by the vibrations of sounding bodies.