The Music of the Bible, With Some Account of the Development of Modern Musical Instruments From Ancient Types
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Stainer has throughout this chapter lost sight of the marked difference between the mediaeval psaltery and dulcimer. Although so similar in shape and construction, the psaltery was plucked by the fingers or swept by a plectrum, whereas the dulcimer is struck by small hammers. In the Assyrian carvings the use of the plectrum with the triangular harp (sabeca) is clearly seen (Fig. 28) ; but no ancient representation of the true psaltery — an instrument in which strings are stretched over and acro...ss a soundbox — is as yet forthcoming, much less that of a dulcimer. Engel's "Assyrian dulcimer" {Music of the most Ancient Nations, p. 44) is in reality a triangular harp of the kind already described, but 68 MUSIC OF THE BIBLE " improved " by a recent European restorer in his attempt to mend the cracked condition of the ancient slab on which it appears. The true psaltery seems to haye originated in Northern or in Eastern Asia, for it is seen in the Chinese kin and tche, for which a remote antiquity is claimed, and also in the koto (Fig.
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Stainer has throughout this chapter lost sight of the marked difference between the mediaeval psaltery and dulcimer. Although so similar in shape and construction, the psaltery was plucked by the fingers or swept by a plectrum, whereas the dulcimer is struck by small hammers. In the Assyrian carvings the use of the plectrum with the triangular harp (sabeca) is clearly seen (Fig. 28) ; but no ancient representation of the true psaltery — an instrument in which strings are stretched over and acro...ss a soundbox — is as yet forthcoming, much less that of a dulcimer. Engel's "Assyrian dulcimer" {Music of the most Ancient Nations, p. 44) is in reality a triangular harp of the kind already described, but 68 MUSIC OF THE BIBLE " improved " by a recent European restorer in his attempt to mend the cracked condition of the ancient slab on which it appears. The true psaltery seems to haye originated in Northern or in Eastern Asia, for it is seen in the Chinese kin and tche, for which a remote antiquity is claimed, and also in the koto (Fig.
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