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Headword:
*culufi/wn
Adler number: xi,98
Translated headword: xylophone
Vetting Status: high
Translation: As in reference to soft twigs, when we bend and release them.[1] [Note] that
Diocles of
Athens first invented music made with clay saucers, with earthenware pots, which he struck with a twig.[2]
*culufi/wn: oi(=on e)pi\ tw=n a(palw=n culufi/wn, o(/tan ka/myantes a)fw=men au)ta/: o(/ti *dioklh=s o( *)aqhnai=os prw=tos eu(=re th\n e)n toi=s o)cuba/fois a(rmoni/an e)n o)straki/nois a)ggei/ois, a(/per e)/krouen e)n culufi/w|.
Notes:
Although "xylophone" is an irrestible translation for this percussion instrument, the resonating part of a xylyphion, as described here, was not actually wood at all. See generally West (below) 128, with 127.
[1] From
gamma 468.
[2] From
delta 1155. (There too the actual idiom, an odd one, is "in" a twig.)
M.L. West, Ancient Greek Music (Oxford 1992).
OCD4 Diocles(2).
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Translated by: James L. P. Butrica â on 18 February 2000@12:43:30.
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