The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 277
ce; the Arabians, however, have used it from the earliest 208 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. ages. In the thirteenth century the taburel was a kind of tambourine,played on with only a drum-stick; in the tabomum we may recognise themilitary drum of the present day; and the tympanum was equivalent toour… … Fig. 176.—Chime of Bells of the Ninth Century. Fig-. 177.—Tympanum of the Thirteenth Century. (MS. de Saint-Blaise.) (Sculpture on the Musicians Hall, Rheims.) same time he blew through two metal flutes communicating with the insideof the drum (Fig. 177). We have now to speak of stringed…
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