The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 266
ncient Pandean pipes, composedgenerally of seven tubes of wood or metal, gradually decreasing in length;they were closed at the bottom, and at the top took the form of a horizontalplane, which was touched by the lip of the musician as it passed along(Fig. 159). In the eleventh and twelfth… … Fig. 158—Double Flute, Fourteenth Century. Fig. 159.—Seven-tubed Syrinx, Ninth or Tenth (From Willemins French Monuments.) Century. (Angers MS.) The chorus, which in the time of St. Jerome was composed of a skin andtwo tubes, one forming the mouth, the other the bell-end (Fig. 161), musthave…
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