Nineveh and Babylon; a narrative of a second expedition to Assyria during the years 1849, 1850, and 1851 (1867)
Layard, Austen Henry, Sir, 1817-1894 · London J. Murray · leaf 306
soundingboard. The strings, pressedwith the fingers of the lefthand to produce the notes,were struck with a smallwand or hammer held inthe right. The men werefollowed by six female mu-sicians, four playing onharps, one on the double-pipes, and the sixth on akind of drum beaten withboth hands,… … tioned; hut it is scarcely possible to determine what the instrumentsreally were : they probably resembled those represented in the bas-reliefsdescribed in the text. The instrument of ten strings mentioned inPsalm xxxiii. 2, xlii. 3, and cxliv. 9, may have been the harp of thesculptures, and the…
