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The instruments are shown played with both plectrum and with fingers. [1] The names chrotta, rotte, rotta, rota and rote have been applied to different stringed instruments, including a psaltery, lyre and to a Crwth (necked lyre played as a fiddle or lute). [3] [5] [6] In the 15th century it was also used to name a fiddle, synonymous with the ...
The chrotta was originally strung with three, later with six, strings, and was played with a bow. It is quite possible that the chrotta is the oldest bowed instrument and the antecessor to the violin. [7] A variety of string instruments so designated are thought to have been played in Wales since at least Roman times.
The psaltery of Ancient Greece was a harp-like stringed instrument.The word psaltery derives from the Ancient Greek ψαλτήριον (psaltḗrion), "stringed instrument, psaltery, harp" [3] and that from the verb ψάλλω (psállō), "to touch sharply, to pluck, pull, twitch" and in the case of the strings of musical instruments, "to play a stringed instrument with the fingers, and not ...
David Playing the Harp by Jan de Bray, 1670.. Knowledge of the biblical period is mostly from literary references in the Bible and post-biblical sources. Religion and music historian Herbert Lockyer, Jr. writes that "music, both vocal and instrumental, was well cultivated among the Hebrews, the New Testament Christians, and the Christian church through the centuries."
The pierced lute had a neck made from a stick that pierced the body (as in the ancient Egyptian long-neck lutes, and the modern African gunbrī [7]). [8] The long lute had an attached neck, and included the sitar, tanbur and tar: the dutār had two strings, setār three strings, čārtār four strings, pančtār five strings. [5] [6]
Kinnor (Hebrew: כִּנּוֹר kīnnōr) is an ancient Israelite musical instrument in the yoke lutes family, the first one to be mentioned in the Hebrew Bible.. Its exact identification is unclear, but in the modern day it is generally translated as "harp" or "lyre", [2]: 440 and associated with a type of lyre depicted in Israelite imagery, particularly the Bar Kokhba coins.
"Game of Thrones" is one of televisions most popular shows of all time. Do you know where a lot of the actors got their start? We're betting you don't remember when the man who plays Khal Drogo ...
In 2008 and 2015 he gave solo concerts in Beirut, Lebanon at the "Palais de L'UNESCO" under the aegis of the Middle Eastern Bible Society [Lebanon], directed by Dr. Michel Bassous. He was also one of the guests soloists invited by the Armenian government and Garik Israelian for the six hour long '80 years Anniversary Tribute-Concert' in Yerevan ...