An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians, written in Egypt during the years 1833-1835 . e instrument is veneered with walnut-wood, inlaid with mother-of-pearl. The instrument is played with two plectra; one plec-trum attached to the fore-finger of each hand. Each plectrum isa small, thin piece of buffalos horn ; and is placed between thefinger and a ring, or thimble, formed of a flat piece of brass orsilver, in the manner represented in the sketch.—The instrumentis placed on the knees of the performer. Under the hands of 330 THE MODERN EGYPTIANS. a skilful player, the kano
An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians, written in Egypt during the years 1833-1835 . e instrument is veneered with walnut-wood, inlaid with mother-of-pearl. The instrument is played with two plectra; one plec-trum attached to the fore-finger of each hand. Each plectrum isa small, thin piece of buffalos horn ; and is placed between thefinger and a ring, or thimble, formed of a flat piece of brass orsilver, in the manner represented in the sketch.—The instrumentis placed on the knees of the performer. Under the hands of 330 THE MODERN EGYPTIANS. a skilful player, the kanoon pleases me more than any otherEgyptian instrument without an accompaniment j and to a bandit is an important accession. The *ood is a lute, which is played with a plectrum. Thishas been for manycenturies the instrument most commonly used bythe best Arab musicians, and is celebrated by numerous name (the original signification of which is wood ), with thearticle el prefixed to it, is the source whence are derived the termsHiito in Italian, ////// in French, lute in English, etc. The length. EGYPTIAN MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, PIPE, ORNAMENTS, ETC. of the ood, as represented in the middle of the accompanying en-graving, measuring from the button, or angle of the neck, is twenty-five inches and a half. The body of it is composed of fine deal,with edges, etc., of ebony : the neck of ebony, faced with box and anebony edge. On the face of the body of the instrument, in whichare one large and two small shemsehs of ebony, is glued a pieceof fishes skin, under that part of the chords to which the plectrumis applied, to prevent the wood from being worn away by theplectrum. The instrument has seven double strings ; two to eachnote. They are of lambs gut The order of these double chordsis singular: the double chord of the lowest note is that whichcorresponds to the chord of the highest note in our violins, etc. :next in the scale above this is the filth (that is, counting the form
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