Scan 187
The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1908
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1strings arranged in sets of three. The body is quadrangular in outline, having the upper end cut off diagonally. The strings pass from pegs in the upper end, over a bridge to the interior, where they are fastened. The upper part of the face is formed of wood and the lower of skin. The instrument is thirty-four inches long and fourteen inches wide.
3KANTELE — Plucked Strings. Finland. A trapeze-shaped psaltery, the national instrument of Finland. Tradition has it that Wäinämöinen, the divine player, made its frame from the bones of the pike, and its tuning pegs from the fish's teeth.
5KANUNA or KATYANANA-VINA — Struck Strings. India. A specimen in the Metropolitan Museum of Art has three straight sides and one which is cut off diagonally. Twenty-eight strings are carried from a like number of pegs, over a single bridge, to the opposite end. The instrument is nearly thirty inches in length and sixteen inches in width. The strings are struck with hammers.
7KARABIB — Sonorous Substances. Africa. Morocco clappers. Two metal discs, with a boss in the center of each, united by a narrow band of metal. They are played in pairs, the hand grasping the center piece while the discs are beaten alternately. Karabibs are usually accompanied by the drum. They are used by the negroes in the Soudan.
9KARNAL — Cup Mouthpiece. Persia. A trumpet of metal having a length of about two feet.
11KASHOOKS — Sonorous Substances. Persia. Two wooden spoons with small bells attached to the bowls. They are shaken to produce a jingle.
13KASSO — Plucked Strings. Africa, West Coast, Dahomey, Senegambia. The body is made from a section of a large gourd, closed with a membrane, and pierced with a long straight stick. Beneath the membrane are four other sticks which protrude at points near the edge of the gourd, two of them being parallel with the strings and two at right angles. The strings pass over the upright notched bridge, which rests upon the center of the membrane. Loops are used in fastening them instead of pegs.
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