The larger zither family includes such instruments as the Aeolian harp, autoharp, cimbalom, dulcimer, koto, and even the clavichord, harpsichord, and piano.
In lamina of shale which deposited in deep lake away from paleo-debouchment in the Shahejie Formation in the Jiyang Depression, some aeolian silty sand was discovered.
The four modes that we meet up with both in Anglo-American folk song and fiddle tunes are the Ionian (major scale), Mixolydian, Dorian, and Aeolian (natural minor scale).
At thirty he married an English girl, daughter of Jerome Dunn, the alpinist, and granddaughter of two Dorset parsons, experts in obscure subjects — paleopedology and Aeolian harps, respectively.
Bagnold never found that mythical oasis, but he did discover the foundations of Aeolian processes, that's the technical term for how wind shapes land through moving sand and sediment, named for the Greek god of the wind.