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The American history and encyclopedia of music .., 1908
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1indispensable to every Chinese orchestra and is used in theatrical performances, and funeral and marriage processions.
3To — Sonorous Substances. China. An ordinary bell with either a metal or a wooden tongue and having a handle at the apex. Four different kinds of tongued bells were formerly in use in the Chinese army. Their ringing was to convey to the soldiers the injunction to stand still and be silent in the ranks, and they came thus to be associated with respect and veneration. When music was performed to illustrate the valor of warriors and the merit of faithful ministers and the like the to was used to symbolize obedience. At present the to is used only by priests to mark the rhythm of their prayers.
5Tolo Tolo — Struck Strings. Africa. The name given by the Basuto tribe, Zululand, to an instrument whose body is a tube of bamboo into each end of which a flexible stick is inserted. A single string passes between the two and is tapped with a stick while the instrument is held to the mouth of the performer.
7Tonkari — Plucked Strings. Japan. A slender body of wood with a flat surface and short neck containing five pegs. At its head the neck broadens into a flat disc. This is one of the instruments of the Ainos, the primitive people of Japan.
9Toomerie Nagassaran — Double-beating Reed. India. An instrument sometimes made of metal and wood, sometimes entirely of metal, and having a mouthpiece fitted with a double-beating reed. The number of finger-holes differs.
11Tootoore — Cup Mouthpiece. India. A curved metal trumpet incapable of many notes.
13Torbane — Plucked Strings. Europe. A Russian form of the theorbo, still in use. See theorbo.
15T'oungsye — Vertical Flute. Korea. A bamboo tube fitted with finger-holes.
17Trapezoid or Box Fiddle — Bowed Strings. Europe. An instrument of small importance by Savart. The inven-
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