The arts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1886)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : J.S. Virtue & Co. · leaf 509
d roared through four air-conduits. Another instru-ment, the bombulum, which must have made a frightful uproar, was, as far aswe can conjecture from the text of the pious writer, a kind of peal of bellsattached to a hollow metallic column which, by the assistance of twelve pipes,reverberated the… … Fig. 382.—Concert and Musical Instruments. From a Miniature in a Manuscript of the Thirteenth Century. trumpet formed of several movable tubes of wood, fitting one into the other;the psaltery, a small harp provided with ten strings; and lastly, thetipupanum, a hand-drum to which were fixed two…
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