Serpent

| View Cart ⇗ | Info

The serpent is “a musical instrument, properly of the trumpet family, having a cupped mouthpiece, a conical wooden tube bent to and fro several times and usually covered with leather, and nine fingerholes very irregularly disposed.” -Whitney, 1911

Source

William Dwight Whitney The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York, NY: The Century Co., 1911)

Downloads

TIFF (full resolution)

1504×2400, 467.9 KiB

Large GIF

641×1024, 51.5 KiB

Medium GIF

401×640, 26.3 KiB

Small GIF

200×320, 10.2 KiB