Ancient instruments

Egyptian Musical: about admirable musical instrument, importance of Clapping in Egyptians music, boomerang-shaped instrument

Classic - Ancient Greek instruments by Nicholas Brass by ancient greek instruments (ancientgreekinstruments). Stream music on Myspace, a place where people come to connect, discover, and share.

Period: New Kingdom. Dynasty: Dynasty 18, late. Date: ca. 1390–1295 B.C.. Geography: From Egypt. Medium: Wood. Dimensions: L. (diagonally) 82 cm (32 5/16 ...

Music in Ancient Rome - Crystalinks

Tharun Sekar, a luthier based in southern India, has painstakingly recreated the long-lost yazh

Ancient Greek Instruments

Lute: the neck of the Renaissance lute was bent back; the strings were tuned in pairs and the fingerboard had frets. Viols: Flat back and six strings. Fretted fingerboard. Viols were held upright in front of the player rather than tucked under the chin Crumhorn: double-reed instrument Sackbut: It's an early kind of trombone. Trumpet: Without the valve system we know today (it was invented in the 19th century). The different notes were obtained by varying the lip pressure Percussion…

The Biwa, Japan's plucked lute, is descended from the Chinese pipa in the 7th century. In Japan it was first used in court music (gaku-biwa), then in a smaller version by Buddhist monks (moso-biwa). Later the heike-biwa, used to recite the epic Tale of Heike, combined elements of most and by the 12th century the most popular instrument

Piriform body made up of 17 hardwood articulated by strips of band inlay. The central three ribs are inlaid with small circles, keys, and hearts of mother-of-pearl. Table of spruce pierced by three sound holes with elaborately carved roses. Fingerboard veneered with bone with arabesque inlay of hardwood. The back of the neck is covered with alternating strips separated with band inlay to match the ribbing of the body. The six double courses (pairs) of gut strings are tightened by 12 pegs…