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 525
ere made, sometimes one only in the middle, sometimes one ateach angle, and sometimes as many as five, symmetrically arranged. Theperformer placed the instrument against his chest, and held it so as to touchthe strings either with the fingers of the two hands, or T\*ith a pen orplectrum (Fig. 409).… … Fig. 409.—Performer on the PsaUerion. Fourteenth Centurj-. (MS. No. 703 in the Bibl. Nat. of Paris.) phrases of admiration in describing the pmlterion. But the highest eulogiumwhich can be passed on this instrument is that it formed the starting-pointof the harpsichord, or of the stringed…
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