A handbook of Bible and church music .. . HARP ON STAND, A MAN BEATING TIME, AND A PLAYER ON ATAMBOURA (OR GUITAR). (^FROM E.) of Chronicles and the Psalms, twice in Isaiahand Amos, and once in Nehemiah. Occasion-ally it is translated viol, as in Amos v. 23,vi. 5 ; and in the Prayer Book version of thePsalms lute. Probably guitar is nearer thetrue translation (D.). Psaltery is merely theAnglicized form of the Greek psalterion. Itwas played with either quill or finger, and was MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND TERMS. 53 thus the prototype of our harpsichord (G.). Itcorresponds with modern Arabian aVud (E
A handbook of Bible and church music .. . HARP ON STAND, A MAN BEATING TIME, AND A PLAYER ON ATAMBOURA (OR GUITAR). (^FROM E.) of Chronicles and the Psalms, twice in Isaiahand Amos, and once in Nehemiah. Occasion-ally it is translated viol, as in Amos v. 23,vi. 5 ; and in the Prayer Book version of thePsalms lute. Probably guitar is nearer thetrue translation (D.). Psaltery is merely theAnglicized form of the Greek psalterion. Itwas played with either quill or finger, and was MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND TERMS. 53 thus the prototype of our harpsichord (G.). Itcorresponds with modern Arabian aVud (E.).From this musical instrument we apply thename Psalter to the Book of Psalms. (2) Akin to the nebel and sometimes addedto it is the ashor. Meaning ten ( GROUP OF HARPS AND OTHER MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. (See p. 15.) xxiv. ^$)y it either signifies an instrument often strings or defines the instrument withwhich it is conjoined; see Ps. xxxiii. 2, al. The LXX. gives h yj/aXTr^pLco heKaxopbio,which the Vulgate copies, in psalterio deca- 54 PATKIARCHAL AND HEBKEW chordo/ or in psalterio decern Ps. xxxiii. 2 it means the decachord nab-lium (Ges.). The psaltery differed from the cithara inhaving its strings above the sounding-board,whereas the latter had them below it (fromSt. Augustine on Ps. xxxiii). 3. Instkument of Three Strings. i 6, A. V. marg. ; ditto R. V., which also
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