Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 26
SOME ANCIENT MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. 589 VIOLONCELLO. … which, in olden time,the lyre was used as anaccompaniment. Flutes made of the leg- 1bones of birds and otheranimals are found among theremains of the primitive cave-dwellers; but it is probable that beforecarving a bone flute, the cave-dweller, orsome earlier inhabitant of the earth, of whomwe have…
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