. International studio. LE PARFAIT ACCORD FROM THEPAINTING BY MOREAU LE JEUNEENGRAVED BY F. J. HELMAN (Courtesy oj Kennedy & Company) plectra of horn or metal, whichwere fastened by rings to thefingers of the player. The Arab kanoon repre-sented the Oriental prototypeof the beaten stringed instru-ment; the psaltery when beatenwith mallets is called the dulci-mer, (dulcis, Latin, sweet,and [»iXo<;, Greek, sound). Itis known in the near east asthe santir. A santir on an oldPersian painting is most illus-trative of the progress of thesoundbox. It is pentagonal inform like the virginal, its tab
. International studio. LE PARFAIT ACCORD FROM THEPAINTING BY MOREAU LE JEUNEENGRAVED BY F. J. HELMAN (Courtesy oj Kennedy & Company) plectra of horn or metal, whichwere fastened by rings to thefingers of the player. The Arab kanoon repre-sented the Oriental prototypeof the beaten stringed instru-ment; the psaltery when beatenwith mallets is called the dulci-mer, (dulcis, Latin, sweet,and [»iXo<;, Greek, sound). Itis known in the near east asthe santir. A santir on an oldPersian painting is most illus-trative of the progress of thesoundbox. It is pentagonal inform like the virginal, its tablebears two movable bridges, act-ing as pitch measurers and thevibration is realized by curvedsticks which combine the actionof the crowquill and the malletof the dulcimer. All keyboard psalteries werebuilt on the principle of jacksand quills—a simple combina-tion of small wooden uprights AUGUST 922 three eighty -n ine inceRnAcioriAL SOTM© called jacks furnished with plectraof crowquill points or flips of pre-pa
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