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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), B. (search)
661. Its notes are remarkable for power rather than sweetness, and require uncommon skill in the performer to render them even moderately pleasing to a cultivated ear, unless from the force of habit or the associations connected with the instrument. De gustibus non est disputandum, — the Romans flavored their sausages with asafetida. Pipers are still attached to the Highland regiments in the British service. The antiquarian notices of the instrument are in the Musurgia of Luscinius, 1536, and in Don Quixote. Bagpipes. The Irish bagpipe was originally the same as the Scotch, but they now differ in having the mouthpiece supplied by the bellows A, which, being filled by the motion of the piper's arm, to which it is fastened, fills the bag B; whence, by the pressure of the other arm, the wind is conveyed into the chanter C, which is played on by the fingers like the common pipe. By means of a tube the wind is conveyed into drones a a a, which, being tuned at octaves to e
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), P. (search)
from a painting in Herculaneum, the figure holding a plectrum. e is a bow-shaped twelve-stringed harp, from an Egyptian painting copied by Wilkinson f is from an Egyptian picture representing a figure playing on a harp with triangular frame and perpendicular strings. (See harp, for cut of Bruce's harpers.) g is a medieval cithara. h is a psalterium, from an illuminated Ms. of the fourteenth century. i is a dulcimer, from the Musurgia seu Praxis Musicae, by Ottomarus Luscinius, Strasburg, 1536. The dulcimer of old Assyria had strings of varying lengths passing over the sounding-board, and was slung by a strap in front of the performer while marching. It was played by a plectrum. It is known as the kanoon by the Arabs and Persians, who twang the lamb's-gut strings with small plectra, one attached to the forefinger of each hand. The dulcimer played with mallets is used in rural fetes on the Continent of Europe, and known as a hackbret (hackboard, or chopping-board, the shape of w
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), U. (search)
indus, Persians, and Arabs, besides the European nations, and their descendants in other countries. The original of the piano-forte is the harp, which, laid prostrate, becomes the dulcimer, known to the Arabs and Persians as santir, and to European nations of some centuries since as the cimbal, the cymbaly of the Poles, and the cimbalom of the Magyars of the present day. The instrument assumed many forms; beaten like the modern dulcimer, shown in Fig. i, Plate XL., from a work published in 1536; or twanged by the fingers or plectra, as in Fig. j, same plate, a citole from a drawing in the British Museum The citole, or finger-played dulcimer, was the psalterium of the fourteenth century; Italian, salterio; English, psaltery. The addition of the key, clavis, made the cembalo or cithara, a clavicembalo or clavicetherium respectively, l and k, of Plate XL. The Hindus claim to have invented the violin-bow, their ravanastron or ancient violin being cited in ancient Sanscrit writings