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The psalterion (Greek ψαλτήριον) [7] is a stringed, plucked instrument, an ancient Greek harp. Psalterion was a general word for harps in the latter part of the 4th century B.C. [ 8 ] It meant "plucking instrument".
Woman with psaltērion or trigonon in red-figure pottery from Apulia , ca. 320–310 BC C. Anzi (British Museum). A trigonon (trígōnon, from Greek "τρίγωνον", "triangle") is a small triangular ancient Greek harp occasionally used by the ancient Greeks and probably derived from Assyria or Egypt.
The magadis (Ancient Greek: Μάγαδις) [1] was an ancient Greek musical instrument, possibly a Greek harp or Lyre. It is usually believed to be a stringed instrument similar to a psaltery or harp, though some earlier sources like the translated fragments of Posidonius discuss arguments that it may have been a woodwind. Modern scholars have ...
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Epigonion Greek harp, circa 430 B.C. This style of harp is not named in artworks and has also been called trigonon by modern researchers. The epigonion (Greek: ἐπιγόνιον) was an ancient stringed instrument, possibly a Greek harp mentioned in Athenaeus (183 AD), probably a psaltery.
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 ...
Arched harps is a category in the Hornbostel-Sachs classification system for musical instruments, a type of harp. [5] The instrument may also be called bow harp. [6] With arched harps, the neck forms a continuous arc with the body and has an open gap between the two ends of the arc (open harps).
In the ancient Greek vase paintings, angle harps with curved bodies appear from the second half of the 5th century B.C. In poetry, from the beginning of the 6th century B.C., there is an instrument called pektis , considered to be of Lydian origin; later Attic writers also mention a multi-stringed instrument called the trigonon or trigonos ...