Scan 188
The American history and encyclopedia of music, 1908
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1KATYANANA-VINA — See kanuna.
2Kazo — Vibrating Membranes. Japan. A skin stretched over a wooden hoop having a diameter of twenty or more inches.
3KEIKEN — Bowed Strings. Japan. A four stringed Chinese fiddle, the strings being tuned in pairs. The cylindrical body is made of a short piece of bamboo, having a snake skin belly and a long slender wooden neck, in which four pegs are inserted. The strings pass from the lower part of the body along the neck, and are bound against it with a cord just below the pegs. A horsehair bow is twined in and out among the strings, so that single notes cannot be produced.
4KEMANGEH, KEMANTCHE — Bowed Strings. Turkey, Persia. A spherical body having a slender, spike-like neck, passing through it and projecting at the base. It is strung with three or more wire strings, and is sometimes fitted with sympathetic strings.
5KEMANGEH A'GOUZ — Bowed Strings. Africa. This name, of Persian origin, signifies "crooked" or "arched," and thus a bowed instrument. It is found in many forms among the Mohammedan nations, and doubtless owes its appearance to the invasion of Persia by the Arabs in the Seventh Century. The instrument is held with the lower edge resting either against the left hip of the performer, or against the shoulder as with the ordinary violin.
6KEMANGEH A'QOUZ — Bowed Strings. Arabia. A specimen in the Metropolitan Museum of Art has a body of cocoanut shell and a belly of skin. A neck of polished wood passes through the body and projects at the lower edge. Two horsehair strings are attached to a metal ring passing over the lower end of the neck, and are wound about two pegs in the upper end. The diameter of the gourd is three inches, and the length of the instrument is thirty-nine inches.
7KEMANGEH ROUMY — Bowed Strings. Africa. A kemangeh with sympathetic strings. See kemangeh.
8KEMANTCHE — See kemangeh.
9KENT HORN — See bugle.
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