Scan 149
The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1908
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1The phœnix is very popular for use in the decoration of Japanese musical instruments and is usually represented as surrounded by red flames. Its story is typical of Oriental romanticism. The phœnix is a mythical bird known throughout the Orient and is supposed to have lived in the Arabian wilderness for 500 or 600 years when it built for itself a funeral-pyre of aromatic woods which the bird fanned with its wings causing flames to break forth. However from the ashes the phœnix sprang to fresh and vigorous life again. From this it has grown to be considered the insignia of immortality.
3DAFF — Vibrating Membranes. Arabia. A hand drum with a square frame of wood and two heads of skin.
5DAHAREH — See dayere.
7DAIRI — Vibrating Membranes. Turkey. This Turkish tambourine has either a circular or an angular frame. It is often furnished with small rings and bells of metal. See tambourine.
9DALDYOSHI — Vibrating Membranes. Japan. The name signifies "grand time beater," the instrument being used upon special occasions. It is beaten with one knobbed stick, and is supported on a lacquered stand. Its skin heads are over a foot in diameter.
11DALUKA — Vibrating Membranes. Africa. Soudan. A small cylindrical shell with heads of skin.
13DAMAM — Vibrating Membranes. India. A drum made of two human skulls, fastened together at the crown, the lower parts being cut away and the cavity covered with human skin. This ghastly affair is beaten in the temples.
15DARABOUKKEH — Vibrating Membranes. Syria. A bottle-shaped hand drum, made of pottery or wood, which is held on the lap with the head projecting forward, and played with the flat of the fingers.
17DAVIDHARFE — See spitzharfe.
19DAYERE or DAHAREH — Vibrating Membranes. Asiatic Russia, Persia. A tambourine with a frame of wood, cov-
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