what is an acrophonogist?

Hello nemo241976-ga,

What an unusual word!

An acrophonogist is most likely a person who plays acrophones, as in
wind instruments, such as flutes, oboes and trumpets. ?Acro? means
?first? and ?phone? means ?sound?. ?-gist? is a suffix indicating a
person who studies or specializes, in this case, acrophones.

?Acrophones are often referred to as wind instruments because the
sound is made by air. The most common acrophone is the flute. The
player blows air through one end of the acrophone and the air passes
through the end creating a sound. The longer the flute, the lower the
sound it will produce. Some flutes have holes so the sounds can be
manipulated by covering the holes. Trumpets are also acrophones and
are usually end blown. Trumpets are made of joined sections of
calabash, bamboo, or metal. An oboe is also an acrophone and sound is
made as vibrations go across a reed.?
http://www.uni.edu/gai/Nigeria/Lessons/Instruments.html


?A. Measurements at the beginning and ending of our arts classes
varied depending on the discipline. After students chose their two
classes in each of the nine week rotations, each teacher determined
the student's prior knowledge through observation, discussion and
hands-on demonstration.For example: a. proper fingering for a recorder
b. four classes of instruments-membranophone, idiophone,chordaphone
and acrophone c. dance steps d. puppet constuction e. pitch, harmony,
etc. B. After the first nine weeks of classes held on Fridays, the
expertise of our students was measured in the ways listed above plus a
performance in our Evening for the Arts.?
http://www.schoollandtrust.org/19156/planReview2000.php

A second meaning could describe  a person adept at reading and
interpreting ancient pre-alphabetic writing forms.

?The hieroglyphic system itself, while it contained some alphabetic
characters used to transcribe foreign words and names, particularly
the names of gods, never evolved into the more efficient alphabetic
system. This system of transcription used acrophones (from acro,
meaning first or highest and phone meaning sound). It combined or
strung together hieroglyphs for different objects based on the first
sound of the name of that object. Yet, the Egyptians never made the
leap from acrophone to alphabet.?
http://home.nycap.rr.com/porush/DaveWeb/HTML%20FIles/Moses%20Alphabet-Bringer.html


?This practice of using a pictograph to stand for the first sound in
the word it stood for is called acrophony and was the first step in
the development of an ALPHABET or the "One Sign-One sound" system of
writing.?
http://www.historian.net/hxwrite.htm


?The Egyptians used the acrophones as a consonantal system along with
their syllabic and idiographic system, therefore the alphabet was not
yet born. The acrophonic principal of Egyptian clearly influenced
Proto-Canaanite/Proto-Sinaitic around 1700 [BCE]. Inscriptions found
at the site of the ancient torquoise mines at Serabit-al-Khadim in the
Sinai use less than 30 signs, definite evidence of a consonantal
alphabet rather than a syllabic system.?
http://home.earthlink.net/~angelwk/hyphyp/lang.html

?The next step in the historical development of middle eastern writing
systems was for the writing system to use just the initial sound or
acrophone.rather than the entire syllable. Thus *bee could stand for
/bee/, /bah/, /boe/, /beh/,...and so on. In such a system, the picture
of the bee as well, as simplified representations of it, would be an
acrophonic pictogram. Acrophonic pictograms make excellent phonograms
because they establish a meaningful connection between the shape of
the mark and the associated sound category.?
http://victorian.fortunecity.com/vangogh/555/Spell/alphabet-origins.html 


A third meaning I came across uses the word ?acrophonogist? as someone 
akin to a psychic, or fortune teller. This probably came from ancient
fortune tellers being some of the few able to interpret very old 
acrophones!
http://www.myhealthwealthandhappiness.com/

Hope this helps you! You did not indicate in which context you had
found this word, but surely it was used on one of the contexts above!

Regards,
crabcakes