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A popular account of ancient musical instruments and their development, as illustrated by typical examples in the Galpin collection at Hatfield, Broad Oak, Essex, 1897
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1large speaking-trumpet used on board Italian vessels, which is of the same length and tapering shape." Another authority believes that, considering this instrument was used by nuns, there is greater reason to suppose that tromba marina is a corruption of tromba Mariana, implying a trumpet played in honour of the Virgin Mary. It was played by nuns to replace the real trumpet during musical performances in the cloisters. Trumpeters were not permitted to visit the nunneries; the nuns had therefore to use this instrument as the best substitute for a trumpet which could be devised.
3The Rebec, or three-stringed fiddle (Fig. 3), is a descendant of the rebab, an arab instrument of the violin class (Fig. 1). The rebec was in use throughout Western Europe in the Middle Ages. In shape it resembles the mandoline. Its tone is loud and harsh, and it was used in the state bands of Henry VIII. Shakespeare's musicians in Romeo and Juliet, named by
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