A handbook of Bible and church music .. . DOUBLE PIPE. tured monument in the museum at Aries, and youhave at once the germ of our modern organ. We pass now from wind to stringed instru-ments. 2. The history of the Harp may be tracedwith much the same clearness. The twangingof the hoiu probably suggested the original idea;and the variation of sound was obtained bylengthening and shortening a multiplicity of MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND TERMS. 15 strings. These were made, at first, of somefibrous material, or the long hair of even the tresses of wives and daughterswere turned to such
A handbook of Bible and church music .. . DOUBLE PIPE. tured monument in the museum at Aries, and youhave at once the germ of our modern organ. We pass now from wind to stringed instru-ments. 2. The history of the Harp may be tracedwith much the same clearness. The twangingof the hoiu probably suggested the original idea;and the variation of sound was obtained bylengthening and shortening a multiplicity of MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND TERMS. 15 strings. These were made, at first, of somefibrous material, or the long hair of even the tresses of wives and daughterswere turned to such musical use, as we read inthe Greek and Roman historians that the bowsof the Carthaginians were thus supplied withstrings in their last war with the , too, like the bow, were portable, aboutfour feet long; and all Oriental harps, so far as. EGYPTIAN HARP, SHOWINa ITS ORIGINAL BOW-LIKE SHAPE. we can judge from surviving sculptures, unlikeours, had no front pillar. Their bow-likeshape and characteristics long remained. Withoutentering at greater length on their further andlater development, we can easily imagine howsoon the need of pegs for tightening and looseningthe strings was felt; how a sounding-board wasfound to add to the body of sound; how stringsof fibre or hair were supplanted by those of l6 PATRIARCHAL AND HEBREW catgut, of steel, and even of silver. Whether /the fingers or whether the quill and plectrumwere the first manipulators of the strings, isa matter of debate. Certainly fingers weremade long before either quills or plectra! Beit as it may, after these latter had been intro-duced, hammers wielded by the hand in duetime followed. And thus we see how thestringed instruments of primaeval and ancientdays became the parent of the dulcimer, thespinet, the harpsichord, and the piano. 3. We now naturally pass fro
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