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The American history and encyclopedia of music .., 1908
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1Tumburu — Plucked Strings. India. The curved body is of gourd or wood and has a straight neck. This instrument is furnished with four strings.
3Tumburu-Vina — Plucked Strings. India. A circular body about a foot in diameter and furnished with a neck which extends some three feet beyond the length of the instrument. Four strings pass from the base of the body to the end of the neck.
5Tungkeo — See la-pa.
7Ty — Vertical Flute. China. A flute made of wood and having a beaked mouthpiece and six finger-holes.
9Tzetze, Zeze, Seze — Plucked Strings. Africa. A bow shaft usually with one string, and a resonator of gourd or shell. The shaft is also provided with three crude frets which are carved into it. An instrument of this kind from Mombassa on the East Coast has a string of fiber passing over a bridge of bent porcupine quill. It is found in different forms among the various tribes. In some instances more than one string is used and the additional one or ones do not go over the frets, but act as drones, and the resonator is frequently in several sections.
11Udakea — Vibrating Membranes. India. Shaped like a dumb-bell. The heads are of skin, the edges being laced together with strips of skin. It is beaten with the fingers.
13Umpan — Sonorous Substances. Japan. A bronze gong. The circular plate has irregular edges, and on each side an unusually deep incision curves in almost to the center. The gong is large, having a diameter of about two feet.
15Uta-Daiiko, Shime-Daiiko — Vibrating Membranes. Japan. A plain drum, the commonest of the Japanese drums, used in the theatres and played with two plain sticks whose sharp edges are beveled off. In processions it is carried before the player in a wooden frame and is decorated with orange-red cords. If the player is celebrated, pale blue and lilac cords are substituted in his honor. The beating is a vigorous business, both sticks being lifted over the right
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