Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . -brother Tubal Cainwas an instructor of every, artihcer in brass andiron. Quite a distinguished and fam-ily. Agriculture, the mechanics, and the fine arts]nirsned by the sons of one man, a descendant in thehfth generation of Cain. The harps of Egypt were numerous and various,having from 4 to It strings as long ago as the reignof Amosis, about 1570 B
Knight's American mechanical dictionary : a description of tools, instruments, machines, processes and engineering, history of inventions, general technological vocabulary ; and digest of mechanical appliances in science and the arts . -brother Tubal Cainwas an instructor of every, artihcer in brass andiron. Quite a distinguished and fam-ily. Agriculture, the mechanics, and the fine arts]nirsned by the sons of one man, a descendant in thehfth generation of Cain. The harps of Egypt were numerous and various,having from 4 to It strings as long ago as the reignof Amosis, about 1570 B. C, 900 years before Ter-pander. The strings were of catgut, and the formof the frame varied according to its To becanied or played standing, sitting, or squatting. One harp iliscovered in Egy]>t in 1823 had severalremaining strings which responded to a touch, andawoke from a rest of 3,000 years. a is an Egy|itian harp from a painting at Thebes. b from a painting at Dendera. c one of the Bruce harpers, two of whom are shownin the original. One of the harps has 21 strings, the other 12. These most florid and striking of all the represen-tations of the Egyptian harp are on the tombs of the HARP. 1U64 HAKP. Fig I^jjptian Harps kings at Thebes of thf time of Rameses III., 1235B. c. ; of them Briiee says : They overturn all theaccounts hitherto given of the earliest state of musicand musical instruments in the East ; and are alto-gether, in their form, ornaments, and compass, anincontestable ]iroof, stronger than a thousand Greekquotations, that geometry, drawing, mechanics, andmusic were at the greatest perfection when this in-strument was made, and that the )ieriod from whichwe date the invention of these arts was only the be-ginning of the era uf their restoration. PytiiJigoras antl his compeers derived their knowl-edge from this source, and the serWces of Terpan-der are probably limited to inventing a method ofexpressing musical sounds, and peihaps of settin
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