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A dictionary of old English music & musical instruments 1923, 1923
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1tune of eight measures, it became gradually extended, until it was employed in an important position in the Suite, and suggested the characteristic rhythm of the closing sections in many examples of the Sonata and Concerto.
3KIT: A small stringed instrument much used by the dancing-masters of the Eighteenth Century. In this use it had four strings and was shaped like a miniature violin, its pitch varying according to different writers, from a unison with the violin to a fourth, fifth, or even an octave above. Praetorius says that it sometimes had brass or steel strings. Earlier examples were shaped like a baton (without corners or bouts), and during one period of its career it had only three strings. A good deal of confusion and doubt exists in the nomenclature, and we cannot be at all sure when Poche, Pochette, Quart-geige, and Kit were synonymous terms, and when not. The Kit in very early references may have been a pocket-rebeck. The word is mentioned in Rastel's Interlude of the four Elements (early in the Sixteenth Century), but we cannot be sure as to which form of the instrument it refers:
5This daunce would do miche better yet,
6If we had a Kit or Taberet.
8KNOT: Sometimes called the Rose. The fretted and often elaborately carved circular sound-hole cut in the tables of lutes and similar instruments. A large amount of highly artistic work was often put into this feature, and the luthier not infrequently strove here to exhibit his skill in the handling of his
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