Musical Instruments

Musical Instruments
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"Musical Instruments" by Carl Engel. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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Engel Carl. Musical Instruments

Musical Instruments

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

Pre-historic Relics

The Ancient Egyptians

CHAPTER III

The Assyrians

The Hebrews

CHAPTER IV

The Greeks

The Etruscans and Romans

CHAPTER V

The Chinese

The Hindus

The Persians and Arabs

CHAPTER VI

The American Indians

CHAPTER VII

European Nations during the Middle Ages

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

Post-mediæval Musical Instruments

INDEX

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Carl Engel

Published by Good Press, 2022

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The Egyptians possessed various kinds of harps, some of which were elegantly shaped and tastefully ornamented. The largest were about six and a half feet high; and the small ones frequently had some sort of stand which enabled the performer to play upon the instrument while standing. The name of the harp was buni. Its frame had no front pillar; the tension of the strings therefore cannot have been anything like so strong as on our present harp.

The Egyptian harps most remarkable for elegance of form and elaborate decoration are the two which were first noticed by Bruce, who found them painted in fresco on the wall of a sepulchre at Thebes, supposed to be the tomb of Rameses III. who reigned about 1250 B.C. Bruce’s discovery created sensation among the musicians. The fact that at so remote an age the Egyptians should have possessed harps which vie with our own in elegance and beauty of form appeared to some so incredible that the correctness of Bruce’s representations, as engraved in his “Travels,” was greatly doubted. Sketches of the same harps, taken subsequently and at different times from the frescoes, have since been published, but they differ more or less from each other in appearance and in the number of strings. A kind of triangular harp of the Egyptians was discovered in a well-preserved condition and is now deposited in the Louvre. It has twenty-one strings; a greater number than is generally represented on the monuments. All these instruments, however much they differed from each other in form, had one peculiarity in common, namely the absence of the fore pillar.

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