Scan 152
The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1908
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1DUFF — Vibrating Membranes. India. A tambourine with a head of skin stretched over a wooden frame, having several angles.
3DULCIMER — Struck Strings. Europe. This ancient instrument is known in the East by the name of santir. Its trapeze-shaped sounding board generally has two sound holes. The strings are stretched from pegs placed in each side of the sound board, and pass over two bridges. The strings are struck between the bridges with little hammers. This places the dulcimer as a predecessor of the piano. The tone when forte is harsh, and there is no way of damping the strings when one has been used and another is to be struck. The dulcimer has gone out of use except among gypsies, and it is often heard in traveling Hungarian gypsy bands. The dulcimer is about three feet at the greatest width, and has from two to five strings of brass or iron wire to each note. The compass varies from two to three octaves.
5DUNG-CH'EN — Cup Mouthpiece. China. A trumpet with a shallow cup-piece, originally coming from Thibet.
7DUPLEX HORN — Cup Mouthpiece. Europe. Pelitti, of Milan, in the middle of the Nineteenth Century, made sets of duplex instruments, in which two instruments were combined in one. Each had a separate bell, but a common mouthpiece. They were furnished with a small valve in the center, by means of which the air could be directed into either form of instrument at the will of the operator.
9ECHELETTE — French name for the xylophone, which see.
11EKA-TARA — Plucked Strings. India. The body is small and globular, and is furnished with a long narrow neck, which passes through the body and projects on the lower side. A single string is stretched from end to end of the neck.
13EKIREI — Sonorous Substances. Japan. A hollow metal ring is formed of two concave sections joined at the edges. Several of them are attached to a harness, and jingle together.
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