The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 263
n metallic strings either of gold or silver, which were played.upon by means of a small bow of wood, ivory, or horn (Fig. 184) ; subse-quently the strings were made more slender, the number being increased toas many as twenty-two ; the three angles of the sounding-box were cut off,and holes were… … Fig. 185.—Performer on the Psalteiion. Fourteenth Centurj. (MS. No. 703 in the Bibl. Imp. of Paris.) the strings either with the fingers of the two bands, or with a pen orplectrum (Fig. 185). This instrument, which in the representations of poetsand painters never failed to figure in celestial…
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