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associated pipes
fiddle flute
There is some contraversy as to whether this is an actual instrument or a figment of painters' imaginations.
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1620 'Syntagma Musicum Theatrum Instrumentorum seu Sciagraphia' by
Michael Praetorius,
plate XXXI
"3 Monochordium is a whistle and has a string beside it/which is bowed with the fiddle/common to the Arabs" |
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1300-1325 Is this a caricature of a fiddle flute? Liège, Netherlands f145v |
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