. The life of the Greeks and Romans. he Florence gallery (Fig. 240),which shows two Sileni with a syrinx, an aulos, and a practical music the syrinx seems to have been used little,although it appears occasionally, together with other instruments,in pictures representing concerted music. AnEtruscan bas-relief (Micali, Lltalia avanti ildominio dei Atlas, Tav. 107) showsthree girls playing severally on a syrinx, aflute, and a kithara ; and in another Etruscanrepresentation (Miiller, Denkmaler, Part IL,~No. 757) the sirens use it to allure akin to the syrinx is the
. The life of the Greeks and Romans. he Florence gallery (Fig. 240),which shows two Sileni with a syrinx, an aulos, and a practical music the syrinx seems to have been used little,although it appears occasionally, together with other instruments,in pictures representing concerted music. AnEtruscan bas-relief (Micali, Lltalia avanti ildominio dei Atlas, Tav. 107) showsthree girls playing severally on a syrinx, aflute, and a kithara ; and in another Etruscanrepresentation (Miiller, Denkmaler, Part IL,~No. 757) the sirens use it to allure akin to the syrinx is the 7r\aylav\o?(fife), said to be invented by the Libyans. ItFig. 240. was not a favourite instrument with the Greeks,and is rarely found on monuments. Fig. 241, m,shows a youth playing on it, after a bas-relief in the Louvre(compare the statue of a young satyr in Miillers Denkmaler,Part IL, No. 460). Generally both the instruments in Fig. 241, gand h, are also called plagiauloi; whether rightly or wrongly wewill not venture to
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