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NAY, or NEY

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 318 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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NAY, or NEY

NAY, or See also:
NEY, MICHEL
NEY , the See also:

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FLUTE

flute of the See also:

ancient Egyptians, held obliquely and played by directing the breath, as in the pipes of the See also:

SYRINX (ovpryE)

syrinx, across the open end, which had no embouchure of any See also:

KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind. Performers on the nay are represented on many of the frescoes which decorated the tombs at See also:

Thebes, their flutes reaching nearly to the ground while they are in the See also:

FAMILIAR (through the Fr. familier, from Lat. familiaris, of or belonging to the familia, family)

familiar See also:

HALF

half-kneeling posture. The acoustic principles involved in the See also:

PRODUCTION (Lat. productionem, from producere, to pro-duce)

production of See also:

sound are the same as for the flute. The narrowness of the See also:

BORE

bore in proportion to the length would facilitate the production of harmonics and so give the nay an extended See also:

COMPASS (Fr. corn pas, ultimately from Lat. cum, with, and passus, step)

compass. See also:

Victor Loret' has compiled a See also:

list of all the real pipes of ancient See also:

EGYPT

Egypt which have survived, having for the most See also:

PART

part been preserved in See also:

MUMMY (from the Persian mumiai, pitch or asphalt)

mummy cases. The nay was not restricted to ancient Egypt, but has remained in See also:

general use in various parts of the See also:

East until the See also:

PRESENT

present See also:

day. (K.

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