. Musical instruments . IlG. 24 - PsALTERiUM. Ffom a MS. of the (jth century formerly in the monastery of St. Blasiiis in tliu Black Forest. merely adopted suchLatin names as theytliought the most ap-propriate. Thus, forinstance, a verysimple stringed instru-ment of a triangularshape, and a some-what similar one ofa square shape (), were designated1) y the n a me ofpsalicriiim. The cithara hereillustrated (Fig. 25) isevidently an improvc-. 0000 /,/^h//////////?//i illi i II / // / * ff « ( // I II I I V 1 II W \> W A W *\ V W \, W V V \ \v\ \ IKi. —CiTiiAKA. rroiii a MS. of the ?j
. Musical instruments . IlG. 24 - PsALTERiUM. Ffom a MS. of the (jth century formerly in the monastery of St. Blasiiis in tliu Black Forest. merely adopted suchLatin names as theytliought the most ap-propriate. Thus, forinstance, a verysimple stringed instru-ment of a triangularshape, and a some-what similar one ofa square shape (), were designated1) y the n a me ofpsalicriiim. The cithara hereillustrated (Fig. 25) isevidently an improvc-. 0000 /,/^h//////////?//i illi i II / // / * ff « ( // I II I I V 1 II W \> W A W *\ V W \, W V V \ \v\ \ IKi. —CiTiiAKA. rroiii a MS. of the ?jtli ci-niiiry, forini-rly in tin inunasttrySt. Blasiui ill the HIacki Iorest. 86 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. ment upon the triangular psalterium (Fig. 26), because it has asort of small sound-board at the top. Scarcely better, withregard to acoustics, appears to have been the instrumentdesignated as nahlum, which is engraved (Fig. 27) from amanuscript of the ninth century at Angers.
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