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The American history and encyclopedia of music .., 1908
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1sages which the student can learn much more easily after hearing them accurately played.
3PIANO-VIOLIN — A curious instrument, invented in 1837. It was a common piano, containing a violin arrangement, which was set in motion by a pedal. When this instrument was played upon it gave the sound of both violin and piano.
5PIBGORN — Single-beating Reeds. A rustic instrument used mainly among the Welsh and Celtic peoples. The name is thought to have come from "Pib" or "piob" meaning pipe and "corn" meaning horn. It was often constructed from the shin bone of an animal combined with a bell of horn though more often of hollow wood. It is supposed to have been used to accompany the hornpipe. It is also called the cornicyll and corneypye.
7PIN — Plucked Strings. Siam. This instrument of the lute family has the usual pear-shaped body of wood, terminating in a narrow neck. The body is only a few inches in width, however, and the instrument averages about forty inches in length.
9PINA — Vertical Flute. China. A flute of bamboo with five finger-holes.
11PINAKA — Plucked Strings. India. The body is a narrow strip of wood, at times highly polished, and decorated. It is mounted with a single string which is plucked with the fingers or with a plectrum.
13PIPE — Vertical Flute. Europe. This name is applied to the wind instrument which the English peasants used with the tabor in accompanying their dances. The instrument was extremely simple in construction and was a little larger than the flageolet. It was played with the left hand while the tabor was played with the right. See flageolet. See tabor.
15PIPE ORGAN — Whistles and Beating and Free Reeds. Europe. The accepted origin of the pipe organ is in the Pan pipes. The same principle underlies both, that of directing air against a group of pipes capable of giving tones of
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