This from Douglas Harper, who operates the Online Etymology Dictionary and, as it happens, lives rather near me: Symphony late 13c., the name of various musical instruments, from O.Fr. symphonie “harmony” (12c.), from L. symphonia “a unison of sounds, harmony,” from Gk. symphonia “harmony, concert,” from symphonos “harmonious,” from syn- “together” + phone “voice, sound”[.] … Continue reading A Symphonic Resolution