plied with frets) byplucking the cord with thefingers or plectra of wood,metal or bone—on the harp.lute, either, guitar, psaltery,and their prototypes of theOrient—or by whipping themelodious string with smallhammers on the dulcimer, cym- AUGUST I<) 22 three seventy-three itJTt KOAClOnAL bal and… … pillarless harp couldstill be found. A curved fore-pillar seems to havebeen added by thebards to the harp ofthe Middle Ages. With the straighten- PERSIAN SCIMITAR HARPS, t .1 without forepillar Iabout 1400 a.d.) inS ot thc column the power of tone is immeasurably m- Europe until the violin bow* and…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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