See also:

• NYCKELHARPA (Swed. nyckel =key, harpa=harp; Ger. Schlusselfiedel)

NYCKELHARPA (Swed. nyckel =See also:

• KEY
• KEY (in O. Eng. tang; the ultimate origin of the word is unknown; it appears only in Old Frisian kei of other Teutonic languages; until the end of the 17th century the pronunciation was kay, as in other words in O. Eng. ending in aeg; cf. daeg, day; clang
• KEY (the phraseograms being indicated by hyphens)
• KEY, SIR ASTLEY COOPER (1821-1888)
• KEY, THOMAS HEWITT (1799-1875)

key, harpa=See also:

• HARP (Fr. harpe; Ger. Harfe; Ital. arpa)

harp; Ger. Schlusselfiedel)  , a See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of bowed hurdy-gurdy, much used in Scandinavia during the See also:

• LATE

late See also:

• MIDDLE

middle ages, and still in use in some parts of See also:

• SWEDEN
• SWEDEN [Sverige]
• SWEDEN, NORWAY AND

Sweden . It consists of a See also:

• BODY

body some 2 ft. See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long, shaped like an elongated See also:

• VIOL

viol, with sloping shoulders and highly arched See also:

• SOUND
• SOUND, THE (Danish Oresund)

sound-See also:

• BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board glued over a less arched back, and ribs cut out of a single See also:

• BLOCK
• BLOCK (from the Fr. bloc, and possibly connected with an Old Ger. Block, obstruction, cf. " baulk ")
• BLOCK, MAURICE (1816–19or)

block of See also:

• WOOD, ANTHONY A2 (1632-1695)
• WOOD, JOHN GEORGE (1827—1889)
• WOOD, MRS HENRY [ELLEN] (1814—1887)
• WOOD, SEARLES VALENTINE (1798—188o)

wood . There is no fingerboard, but along the See also:

• NECK (O. Eng. hnecca; the word appears in many Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch ride, Ger. Nacken; in O. E. the common word was heals; cf. Ger. Hals)

neck, arranged like frets, are a number of keys or wooden tangents, which when pressed inwards bring a little knob or See also:

• STUD

stud into contact with the first See also:

• STRING

string of thin See also:

• CATGUT

catgut, thus stopping it and raising the See also:

• PITCH
• PITCH, MUSICAL

pitch as in the hurdy-gurdy . At three points these keys also See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act upon the third string . There are in the comparatively See also:

• MODERN

modern See also:

• INSTRUMENTS

instruments usually four See also:

• MELODY (Gr. ,ueXw3ia, a choral song, from name, tune, and gi6i, song)

melody strings of catgut and three drones of See also:

• FINE

fine spun See also:

• WIRE (A.S. wir, a wire; cf. Swed. vire, to twist, M.H.G. wiere, a gold ornament, Lat. viriae, armlets, ultimately from the root wi, to twist, bind)

wire . The See also:

• BRIDGE

bridge is quite See also:

• FLAT (a modification of O. Eng. flet, an obsolete word of Teutonic origin, meaning the ground beneath the feet)

flat, so that when the See also:

• BOW (pronounced " bo ")

bow is passed over the strings, they all sound at once . The tailpiece is very long, extending over See also:

• HALF

half the length of the body, and the two See also:

• OVAL (Lat. ovum, egg)

oval sound-holes, far removed from the strings, are at the tail end of the See also:

• INSTRUMENT (Lat. instrumentum, from insincere, to build up, furnish, arrange, prepare)

instrument .