File:History of Inventions USNM 40 Stringed Instruments.jpg
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English: No. 1. Mahuga musical bow, from Mashonaland. Piece of cane with single string of twisted cotton. Player holds it in his teeth to hear the
sound 167,518 No. 3. Egyptian tambour or African lyre. Body boat-shaped, covered with rawhide ; neck a bent stick ; strings twisted fiber, reaching from median line of the body to the overhanging neck ; tuning pegs transverse. No. 4. Finnish open-stringed psaltery (kantele) . Wire strings, of graduated length stretched over wooden pegs tightened by wire keys 95,690 No. 5. Kanoon, from Morocco. Body, a trapezoid ; gut strings of graduated lengths tuned in groups of threes ; fixed bridge at oblique end ; raised bridge resting on four squares of fish skin. Sound holes in sounding- board. No. 6. Italian psalteria or dulcimer. Trapeze formed body. Series of strings of graduated length, tuned in groups of four each. Fixed bridges at each end of sounding board, and two diagonal rows resting on it. No. 7. Autoharp. Harmonics only are sounded. Inharmonic sounds dampened by pressing down a series of spring bars 95,237 |
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| Source | Walter Hough (1922). Synoptic series of objects in the United States National Museum illustrating the history of inventions. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 60 (2404). 1-47, 56 pl. |
| Author | United States National Museum (Smithsonian Institution), Washington D.C. |
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