Readings in English social history from contemporary literature (1922) (14798624533)

Identifier: readingsinenglis04morguoft (find matches)
Title: Readings in English social history from contemporary literature
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Morgan, R. B. (Robert Burns)
Subjects: England -- Social life and customs
Publisher: Cambridge, Univ. Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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A Seventeenth Century Schoolroom
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Stringed Instruments of the Seventeenth Century I. Viol 2. Cithern 3- Lute 4. Viol da gamba 5. Lute with additional harp-slrings AND PROTECTORATE 47 There are also of an inferiour kind, as Fluits, Recorders,Bag-Pipes—& these last both greater & lesse—so calledbecause they have bags fastened to the Pipe, which, beingestuft with the wind of the Mouth, causeth the Sounde.But these Pipes are never vsed by any Artists in Musicke;but by the more Rusticall Sorte of People. The Stringed Instruments now in vse are two-fold, eitherGut-stringes or Wyre-stringes. Instruments with Gut-stringes are of Three sortes. 1. The Harpe, which is made in forme of a Triangle, &hath the stringes open on both sides, for either hande toplay with all; & is played vppon with the fingers of bothhandes. 2. The Lute, which is made with a Round backe, like ahalfe-Globe, the belly of it flat & even to the finger-board.This is played vppon with the fingers of the right hand &stoppinge the no