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Preferred term

Trumpets marine  

Definition(s)

  • Single-string zitherlike chordophones with a slender, three-sided body made of thin boards tapering to the top, and a unique bridge, one of the feet of which does not rest on the belly of the instrument but is suspended a hairsbreadth above it, so that it drums rapidly against it when played; common 15th-mid 18th cs. [AAT]

Broader concept(s)

Synonym(s)

  • Fiddles, nuns
  • Marine trumpets
  • NONNENGEIGE
  • Nuns' fiddles
  • Sea-trumpets
  • TROMBA MARINA
  • TROMPETENGEIGE

Notation

  • 117691

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-X1C73HL1-0

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