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SAMBUCA, SAMBUTE, SAMBUUT, SAMBUE, SAMBUQUE , an See also:ancient stringed See also:instrument of See also:Asiatic origin generally supposed to be a small triangular See also:harp of shrill See also:tone (Arist. Quint. Meib. ii. p. 1o1). The sambuca was probably identical with the Phoenician sabecha and the Aramaic sabka, the See also:Greek See also:form being vaj.Bbxn. The sabka is mentioned in See also:Dan. iii. 5, 10, 15, where it is erroneously translated See also:sackbut. The sambuca has been compared to the military See also:engine of the same name by some classical writers; See also:Polybius likens it to a rope See also:ladder; others describe it as See also:boat-shaped. Among the musical See also:instruments known, the See also:Egyptian See also:nanga best answers to these descriptions. These See also:definitions are doubtless responsible for the See also:medieval drawings representing the sambuca as a See also:kind of See also:tambourine,' for Isidor elsewhere defines the See also:symphonia as a tambourine. During the See also:middle ages the word sambuca was applied (1) to a stringed instrument about which little can be discovered, (2) to a See also:wind instrument made from the See also:wood of the See also:elder See also:tree (sambucus). In an old glossary (Fundgruben, i.

368), See also:

article vloyt (See also:flute), the sambuca is said to be a kind of flute. " Sambuca vel sambucus est quaedam arbor parva et mollis, unde haec sambuca est quaedam See also:species symphoniae qui See also:fit de ilia arbore." Isidor of See also:Seville (Etym. 2. 20) describes it as " Sambuca in musicis species est symphoniarum. Est enim genus ligni fragilis unde et tibiae componuntur. " In a glossary by See also:Papias of See also:Lombardy (c. 1053), first printed at See also:Milan in 1476, the sambuca is described as a See also:cithara, which in that See also:century was generally glossed " harp," i.e. " Sambuca, genus cytherae rusticae. " In See also:Tristan (9563-72) the See also:knight is enumerating to See also:King Marke all the instruments upon which he can See also:play, the sambiut being the last mentioned: " Waz ist daz, See also:lieber See also:mann? —Daz veste Seitspiel daz ich kann." In a Latin-See also:French glossary (M.S. at See also:Montpelier, H. 1ro, fol. 212 v.) Psalterium = sambue.

During the later middle ages sambuca was often translated sackbut in the vocabularies, whether merely from the phonetic similarity of the two words has not. yet been established. The See also:

great See also:Boulogne Psalter (xi. c.) contains, among other fanciful instruments which are evidently intended to illustrate the equally vague and fanciful descriptions of instruments in the apocryphal See also:letter of S. See also:Jerome, ad Dardanum, a Sambuca, which resembles a somewhat See also:primitive sackbut (q.v.) without the See also:bell See also:joint. It is reproduced by Coussemaker, See also:Lacroix and See also:Viollet-le-Duc, and has given rise to endless discussions without leading to any satisfactory See also:solution. (K.

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