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KISSAR, or GYTARAH BARBARYEH

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 837 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KHA-KRI
KISSAR, or GYTARAH BARBARYEH , the ancient Nubian lyre, still in use in
Egypt
  and Abyssinia. It consists of a
body
  having instead of the traditional tortoiseshell back a shallow, round bowl of
wood
 , covered with a sound-board of sheepskin, in which are three small round sound-holes. The arms, set through the sound-board at points distant about the third of the
diameter
  from the circumference, have the familiar fan shape. Five gut strings, knotted round the bar and raised from the sound-board by means of a bridge tailpiece similar to that in use on the modern guitar, are plucked by means of a plectrum by the right hand for the melody, while the left hand sometimes twangs some of the strings as a soft drone accompaniment.


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