Old musical instruments

harp - Miniature Painting On Old Urdu Manuscript Paper

Oud ( Turquie )

Kora, Mamadou Koyate, Mandinka, Senegal

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…

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INSTRUMENTS FOR JOY - RESEARCH DDO:) MOST POPULAR RE-PINS - http://www.pinterest.com/DianaDeeOsborne/instruments-for-joy/ - Oriental guitar or lyre type instrument: Sursanga lute, 19th C, made from Indian wood, pearl & ivory. Sursanga is one of many Indian lute instruments popular in 19th century. India art features lutes in Ragamala paintings. Richly decorated musical instruments such as this sursanga were often given as gifts & used for display or wall decorations rather than playing…

Illustration about 3d render of antique gramophone. Illustration of retro, reproduction, obsolete - 5205788

A Turkish Oud

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…

English cittern, circa 1600. A stringed instrument dating from the Renaissance, descended from the Medieval citole, or citole. Its flat-back design was simpler and cheaper to construct than the lute. It was also easier to play, smaller, less delicate and more portable. Played by all classes, the cittern was a premier instrument of casual music making much as is the guitar today.