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A small psalterium with strings placed over a sound-board was apparently the prototype of the citole; a kind of dulcimer which was played with the fingers. The names were not only often vaguely applied by the mediæval writers but they changed also 89in almost every century. The psalterium, or psalterion (Italian salterio, English psaltery), of the fourteenth century and later had the trapezium shape of the dulcimer.

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Musical Instruments
Written by Carl Engel
Published in 1875
Available from gutenberg.org

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Sunday 26 July 2020

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Middle Ages, musical instrument, Stringed instrument

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