Scan 186
The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1908
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1wood at one end. It is fitted with six strings. This is typical.
3KACHHAPI VINA — Plucked Strings. India. The body is about four feet in length and is gourd-shaped, that is, the circular base tapers into a neck. The neck has many frets, and five strings pass from the base of the instrument over a bridge and over the frets.
5KAGURA SUZU — Sonorous Substances. Japan. An instrument consisting of a handle of wood with two wire hoops at one end, upon which are hung a number of small bells. This is used to mark time in the orchestra and in the temples.
7K'AI-TI — See so-na.
9KAJIREI — Sonorous Substances. Japan. A time marker. It consists of hollow rings strung on a bent wire, to the ends of which is fastened a wooden handle by which it is shaken.
11KAKKO — Vibrating Membranes. Japan. A small drum originating in Turkestan or Thibet, though now Japanese. It is placed on a stand and marks the time in the orchestra. The heads of skin are stretched over hoops of larger diameter than the shell, and the projecting edges are laced together with cords of skin.
13KAKOSHI — Bowed Strings. Africa. This consists of a hollow body, sometimes with and sometimes without a sounding-board. Midway in its length is placed a cross-bar, from which are stretched strings to the pegs, placed rudely in the long neck. The cross-bar is held in place by cords. One from the Masango tribe, Angola, to be seen in the National Museum in Washington, D. C., in its outlines roughly resembles a violin.
15KAN-DUNG — Vertical Flute. India. A flute made from a bone of a Buddhist priest and employed in the temple service.
17KANOON or QANON — Plucked Strings. Turkey. A kanoon in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is composed of a body of wood over which are stretched seventy-five gut
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