The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . Fig. r. HARP 13. from the simplest bow-form to the almost triangular harp, into onefamily (see (15. 2). The Egyptian harp had no front pillar, and as it was strung withcatgut the tension and pitch must necessarily have been low. The harps above - mentioneddepicted in the tomb atThtbcs, assumed fromthe players to be morethan 6 ft. high, have notmany strings, the onehaving ten, the otherthirteen. What theaccordance of these stringswas it would be hard torecover. We must becontent with the know-ledge
The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . Fig. r. HARP 13. from the simplest bow-form to the almost triangular harp, into onefamily (see (15. 2). The Egyptian harp had no front pillar, and as it was strung withcatgut the tension and pitch must necessarily have been low. The harps above - mentioneddepicted in the tomb atThtbcs, assumed fromthe players to be morethan 6 ft. high, have notmany strings, the onehaving ten, the otherthirteen. What theaccordance of these stringswas it would be hard torecover. We must becontent with the know-ledge that the oldEgyptians possessed harpsin principle like ourown, the largest having^^- *• pedestals upon which they bestowed a wealth of dec^oratlon, as if to show how much theyprized them. The ancient Assyrians had harps like those of Egjpt in beingwithout a front pillar, but differing from them in having the sound-body uppermost, in which we find the early use of soundholes;while the lower portion was a bar to which the strings were tied andby means of which the tuning was apparently effected. What theHebr
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