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Encyclopedia Britannica



TRIGONON

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 282 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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


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