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It is equipped with 4 string, and has a curved body.... http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/23600/23616/ancient_banj_23616.htm There are several instances of some sort of ancient instrument, consisting of metallic plates or rods, played by means of a hammer. Many have considered these to have been the original type of the mod... http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/23600/23620/percussion_23620.htm The Assyrians held music in honor, and empoyed it for liturgical purposes, as well as those of social and private life. Among the discoveries at Nineveh and Babylon are many of a musical character. S... http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/23600/23619/assyrian_mus_23619.htm "Ancient Persian bag-pipe." &mdash; The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1910... http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/27800/27875/bag-pipe_27875.htm "Ancient Persian Bag-pipes" &mdash; Encyclopediia Britannica, 1910... http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/26900/26939/persbagpipe_26939.htm A Russian musical instrument with a triangular body and three strings that produces sounds similar to those of a mandolin.... http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/4700/4730/balalaika_1.htm A type of straight Medieval trumpet usually made of metal.... http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/29500/29595/busine_29595.htm A type of straight Medieval trumpet usually made of metal.... http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/29500/29596/busine_29596.htm "Another [Chinese] stringed instrument is the Se, (also written Che), which had originally 50 strings. as now used, it has only 25 strings. Four kinds are in use, differing in size and in number of st... http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/3200/3244/che_1.htm An ancient Welsh and Irish musical instrument, the earliest known specimen of the viol class. ... http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/22900/22992/crowd_22992.htm King David, playing on the three-stringed crwth.... http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/23600/23611/crwth_23611.htm "Old English double curtail (before 1688)." &mdash; The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1910... http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/27800/27889/curtail_27889.htm A disk of bronze, of peculiar composition and temper, the secret of which is only known to the Chinese. It is struck upon with a mallet covered with felt or rags... http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/4700/4729/chinese_gong_1.htm This illustration shows a harp from the XXth dynasty, about 1300 B.C., it had 21 strings, and was elaborately colored and ornamented with gold and carvings.... http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/23600/23614/harp_23614.htm This image shows harps used by minstrel's in the thirteenth century.... http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/23600/23628/harp_23628.htm An Assyrian Harp.... http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/6100/6111/assyrian_harp_1.htm Native musical instruments from Uganda.... http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/22300/22321/instruments_22321.htm The main instrument in ancient Chinese culture. It is a stringed instrument entirely unlike any other of which we have accounts, saving the Japanese ko-ko, which was most likely derived from it. The k... http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/23600/23624/ke_23624.htm "The principle of the sound of silk is exemplified in the Kin or Ch'in, made of twisted silk being stretched over a wooden frame. The number of strings was five, to agree with the five elements; the u... http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/3200/3242/kin_1.htm The koto is a traditional stringed musical instrument from Japan resembling a zither. Koto have 13 strings that are strung tautly across 13 movable bridges along the length of the instrument. ... http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/23600/23635/koto_23635.htm Also known as a cheng has a row of reed-pipes, blown directly, like the syrinex, by the human breath... http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/4600/4605/chinese-organ_1.htm "The Plagiaulos. Castellani Collection (Maenad Pipes), British Museum." &mdash; The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1910... http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/27800/27825/plagiaulos_27825.htm Or the Chinese Violin was a piece of bamboo which forms the stick; at the heel this bamboo is pierced with a hole through which passed a mesh of hair secured by a knot; in this way the stick is curved... http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/4700/4703/ravanastron_1.htm An Indian stringed instrument played with a bow, used by some pilgrims.... http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/23600/23623/ravanastron_23623.htm A large bronze horn in a curious shape. These instruments have been tested by experienced horn players and give forth a fine, resonant tone.... http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/23600/23640/ludr_23640.htm