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TRIGONON

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 282 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TRIGONON , a small triangular See also:

harp, occasionally used by the See also:ancient Greeks and probably derived from See also:Assyria or See also:Egypt. The trigonon is thought to be either a variety of the See also:sambuca or identical with it. A trigonon is represented on one of the Athenian red-figured vases from Cameiros in the See also:island of See also:Rhodes, dating from the 5th See also:century B.C., which are preserved in the See also:British Museum. The triangle is here an irregular one, consisting of a narrow See also:base to which one end of the See also:string was fixed, while the second See also:side, forming a slightly obtuse See also:angle with the base, consisted of a wide and slightly curved See also:sound-See also:board pierced with holes through which the other end of the strings passed, being either knotted or See also:wound See also:round pegs. The third side of the triangle was formed by the strings themselves, the front See also:pillar, which in. See also:modern See also:European harps plays such an important See also:part, being always absent in these See also:early See also:Oriental See also:instruments. A small harp of this See also:kind having 20 strings was discovered at See also:Thebes in 1823. (K.

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