. Musical instruments . inslruiniMit, and differed in construction from theflutes and pipes of the ancient Egyptians. Instead of beingblown through a hole at the side near the \.o\) it was heldlike a llageolct. and a vibrating reed was inserted into themouth-piece, so that it might be mon^ properly described asa kind of oboe or clarinet. The (in-eks were accustomed todesignate by tlie name of aiilos all wind instruments of theflute and oboe kind, some of which were constructed like the flageolet or like our anti-quated flute d bee. The singlethitv was called »ionaiilos (), antl the double
. Musical instruments . inslruiniMit, and differed in construction from theflutes and pipes of the ancient Egyptians. Instead of beingblown through a hole at the side near the \.o\) it was heldlike a llageolct. and a vibrating reed was inserted into themouth-piece, so that it might be mon^ properly described asa kind of oboe or clarinet. The (in-eks were accustomed todesignate by tlie name of aiilos all wind instruments of theflute and oboe kind, some of which were constructed like the flageolet or like our anti-quated flute d bee. The singlethitv was called »ionaiilos (), antl the double one diniilos(Fig. 8). A wasfound in a tomb at Athens,is in the British Mustnun. Thewood oi which it is madeseems to be cedar, and the tubesare fifteen inches in length,l^acli tube has a separatemouth-piece and six tlnger-iiokS, ii\e of which are at theupper sidi and our is under-neat h. Ihe syrinx, or Pandean jipe,had from three to nine tubes, lu. Muse ; ilK , Sevell WaS til. usual. 32 MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. numl)er. The straii^ht trumpet, 5ff//)///.v, and the curved horn,keras, made of brass, were used exchisively in war. Thesmall hand-drum, called tympanon, resembled in shape ourtambourine, and was covered with parchment at the backas well as at the front. The kynibala were made of metal,and resembled our small cymbals. T\\^J<rotala were almostidentical with our castanets, and were made of wood ormetal. The Etruscans .d The Romans are recorded to have derived some of their mostpopular instruments originally from the Etruscans, a jieoplewhich at an early period excelled all other Italian nations in thecultivation of the arts as well as in social refinement, and whichpossessed musical instruments similar to those of the must, however, be remembered that many of the vasesand other specimens of art which have been found in Etruscantombs, and on which delineations of lyres and other instru-ments occur, are supjwsed to be
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